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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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This wasn't any mere song and dance here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
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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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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
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It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
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How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
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The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.
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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
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You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.
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The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
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People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.
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In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
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There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
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There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
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You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
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