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The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.
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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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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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Maybe we should always assume the worst.
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Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
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To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.
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Rant Casey used to say, No matter what happens, it's always now... Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.
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How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
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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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Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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