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This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

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
Missing
Greatest
Life

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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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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
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When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
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Maybe we should always assume the worst.
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
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Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
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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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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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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
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The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
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Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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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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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
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