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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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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
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Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
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The lucky ones are just born dead.
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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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On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
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Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
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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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Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
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There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
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So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.
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The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
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With insomnia, you're never really awake but you're never really asleep.
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