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Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
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Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
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It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.
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Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.
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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
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I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.
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My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
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To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.
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I have a lot of money.
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