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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Stories
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World

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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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Life is short, death is forever
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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
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I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
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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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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
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These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
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Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.
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We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
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Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
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We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
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Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
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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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My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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