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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Trapped
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Everyone

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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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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.
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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
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After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life
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What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
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It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
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You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?
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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
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It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
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So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.
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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
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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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You always kill the one you love.
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Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
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With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
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