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There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
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It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.
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Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
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So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.
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You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
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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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My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
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Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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Getting fired, Tyler says, is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.
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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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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
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I am nothing, and not even that.
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More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
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This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
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I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
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Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
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