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I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

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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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
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Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.
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A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
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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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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
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It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.
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You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
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Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
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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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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.
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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
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I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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