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I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
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Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
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He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.
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If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.
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Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate you can't just be a spectator.
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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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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.
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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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That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
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Sobriety is okay enough, Denny says, but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
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More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
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The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
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A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.
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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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As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
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The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
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