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Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a hot day. Or a pretty girl.

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
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The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.
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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
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No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
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A good story should change the way you see the world.
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There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.
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More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
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Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
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If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
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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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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
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Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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