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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
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No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.
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The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Getting fired, Tyler says, is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.
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It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
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You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
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Everyone's in their own personal coma.
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I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
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As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?
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The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.
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We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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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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The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
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The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
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I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
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I don't want to die without any scars.
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Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.
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