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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
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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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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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
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If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
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