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I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.

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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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
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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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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
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The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of comfort food we expect to lull us to sleep.
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Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.
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There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
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Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.
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About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.
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On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
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If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
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