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Some people still think knowledge is power.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.
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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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A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
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Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.
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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
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Suicide is very contagious.
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When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.
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A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
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