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I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.
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I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
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Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
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Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.
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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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I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.
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I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.
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You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
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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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I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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