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I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.
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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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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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The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
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No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.
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I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
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Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
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Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
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The more things you own, the more they own you.
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Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
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