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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
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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.
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Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
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Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
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These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
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Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
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We'll never be as young as we are tonight.
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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
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What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
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As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
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My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
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We just had a near-life experience!
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Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
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You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
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I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
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The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of comfort food we expect to lull us to sleep.
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There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.
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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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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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