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Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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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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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
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I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.
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If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.
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The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew. Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.
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For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
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Dude, the place is filling up, I say. It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass. Like somehow we're running out of time.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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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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There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
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I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
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