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Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
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I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
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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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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
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Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
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Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
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A good story should change the way you see the world.
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