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A good story should change the way you see the world.

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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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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Some people still think knowledge is power.
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Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
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Getting fired, Tyler says, is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
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Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
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You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
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Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
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To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.
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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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At this rate, we'll never get to the future.
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