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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
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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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If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
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I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
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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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When someone walks in and you say a six-foot-tall man, you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.
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A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.
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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.
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The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
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Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.
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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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I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
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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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Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.
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