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I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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Rant Casey used to say, No matter what happens, it's always now... Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.
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You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
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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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I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
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