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Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.
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Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
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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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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
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To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
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Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.
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We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
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These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
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I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.
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I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
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