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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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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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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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Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
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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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Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
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The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.
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A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.
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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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You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
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Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
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What if reality is nothing but some disease?
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
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The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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