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It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

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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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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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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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
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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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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.
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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
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