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Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
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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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Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
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This wasn't any mere song and dance here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
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That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
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You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
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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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No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.
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The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!
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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
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Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.
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