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I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

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
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We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
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Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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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.
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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
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If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
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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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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
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We just had a near-life experience!
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Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.
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The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.
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How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
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It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
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