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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

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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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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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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Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
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No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.
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I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.
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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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As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
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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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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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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
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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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My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
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Some people still think knowledge is power.
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.
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