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Life is short, death is forever
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
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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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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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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
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I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
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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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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
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There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.
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We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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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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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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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.
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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
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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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Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
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The more things you own, the more they own you.
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