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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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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
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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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It's interesting because when David Fincher was making Fight Club, he said, It's a romance. And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of Fight Club. The film has a very different ending than the book does.
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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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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.
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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
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Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.
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We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.
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He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.
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Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
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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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With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
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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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