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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 have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.
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There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
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It's interesting because when David Fincher was making Fight Club, he said, It's a romance. And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of Fight Club. The film has a very different ending than the book does.
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Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
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That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
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I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
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With insomnia, you're never really awake but you're never really asleep.
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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 don't want to die without any scars.
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I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.
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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
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You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
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With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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Tyler lies back and asks, If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing? I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
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