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A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

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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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.
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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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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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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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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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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
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This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
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