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Art never comes from happiness.

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
Happiness
Comes
Art
Never

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Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.
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When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
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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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By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
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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.
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
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How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.
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I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.
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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
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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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Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
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The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew. Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.
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A good story should change the way you see the world.
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Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.
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In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
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Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.
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