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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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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More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.
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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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Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
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I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
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I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves they don't make us any stronger.
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He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.
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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
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In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
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This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
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I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.
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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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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
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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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I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
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