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Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

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
Bless
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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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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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There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.
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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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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.
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This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
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Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
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You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
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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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Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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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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A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
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The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.
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There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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