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I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
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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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He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.
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Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
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So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.
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Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.
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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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If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.
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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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To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.
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I don't want to die without any scars.
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All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
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Some people still think knowledge is power.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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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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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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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
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The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
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