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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
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Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
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I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
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The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.
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Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
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There will always be an underground.
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We're the culture that cried wolf.
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Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you. The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.
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Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
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With insomnia, you're never really awake but you're never really asleep.
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You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
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I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.
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If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
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As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
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