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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
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
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No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.
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The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
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And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
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When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.
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As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?
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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
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Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
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In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
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There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
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