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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.
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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Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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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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You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
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Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.
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This isn’t really death, Tyler says, We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old. I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak.
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The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
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Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.
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Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.
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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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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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Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.
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The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
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The damaged loves the damaged.
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I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
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