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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
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
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More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
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I don't want to die without any scars.
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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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I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
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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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You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
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There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.
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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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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
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We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
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