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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

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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Pasco
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
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Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
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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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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.
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You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.
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A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.
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I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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Love and life belongs to great risk.
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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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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
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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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By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
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