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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.
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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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?
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There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
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If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
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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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After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.
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You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
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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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I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.
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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
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I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
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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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These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
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Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
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Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
Chuck Palahniuk
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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The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
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