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To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
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It's interesting because when David Fincher was making Fight Club, he said, It's a romance. And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of Fight Club. The film has a very different ending than the book does.
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Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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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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With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
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HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.
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Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.
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And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
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No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
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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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How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
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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 answer is there is no answer.
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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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Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?
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