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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.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
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I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
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There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
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Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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Sobriety is okay enough, Denny says, but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
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The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
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The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
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My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.
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We're the culture that cried wolf.
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Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
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Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
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The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
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There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
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Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
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As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
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I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.
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