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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.
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Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
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Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
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This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.
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For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.
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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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The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.
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There will always be an underground.
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You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
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I don't want to die without any scars.
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You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
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In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
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The damaged loves the damaged.
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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 most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
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I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.
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