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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
Enough
People
Listen
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My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
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The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
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Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
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No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
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As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
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Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!
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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
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This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.
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You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
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Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
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This wasn't any mere song and dance here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
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What would Tyler Durden do?
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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
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We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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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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