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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
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.
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At this rate, we'll never get to the future.
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
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HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.
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The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.
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I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
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You always kill the one you love.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.
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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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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
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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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Life is short, death is forever
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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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Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
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She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
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Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
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