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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
Essayist
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
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How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
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I have a lot of money.
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I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
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Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?
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The answer is there is no answer.
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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
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Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.
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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
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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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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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