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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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World

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You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
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Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.
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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
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Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.
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When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
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My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
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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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My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
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Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
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I am nothing, and not even that.
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This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it
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The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
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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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What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.
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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
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There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.
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Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
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