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Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.
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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
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The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.
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It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
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The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
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Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
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Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.
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That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
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Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
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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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Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
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I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
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Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
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This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it
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The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
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I don't want to die without a few scars.
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