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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
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
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We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.
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The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.
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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
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The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of comfort food we expect to lull us to sleep.
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This isn’t really death, Tyler says, We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old. I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.
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People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
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Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
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I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.
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