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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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The lucky ones are just born dead.
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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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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 short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
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You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
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I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
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In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
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Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
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We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...
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I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
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Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
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The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
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