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Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
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Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
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There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
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I would pay snakes to bite her.
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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
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We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...
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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
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It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
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Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
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Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.
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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
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I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
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There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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