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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.
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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Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
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The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.
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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
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Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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Art never comes from happiness.
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The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
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We're the culture that cried wolf.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.
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Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
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Life is short, death is forever
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
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To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
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What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
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