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I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
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The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
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Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
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What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
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The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.
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