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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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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.
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Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
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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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At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
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If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.
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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
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At this rate, we'll never get to the future.
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My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.
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Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
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Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
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We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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