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On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.
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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
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It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
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If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
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Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
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There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
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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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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.
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