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Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
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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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The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask.
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I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
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As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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There will always be an underground.
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You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
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Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
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Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.
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I don't want to die without any scars.
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The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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