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The more things you own, the more they own you.

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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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.
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Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.
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What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.
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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
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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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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
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Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
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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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I have a lot of money.
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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
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Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.
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Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.
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If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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