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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

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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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
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In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.
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I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
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Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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