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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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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
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I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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There will always be an underground.
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Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
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This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
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The more things you own, the more they own you.
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I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
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I don't want to die without a few scars.
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
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Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
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And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
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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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