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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.
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There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
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My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.
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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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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
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Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.
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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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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
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A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
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I don't want to die without any scars.
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