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You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
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As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
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I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
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At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
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We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
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To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.
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The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a hot day. Or a pretty girl.
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The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
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Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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I have a lot of money.
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Getting fired, Tyler says, is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
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This isn’t really death, Tyler says, We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old. I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.
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