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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
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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
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As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
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It's interesting because when David Fincher was making Fight Club, he said, It's a romance. And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of Fight Club. The film has a very different ending than the book does.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.
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By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
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Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
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Find good in what the world says is evil.
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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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Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
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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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