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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.
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Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
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Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
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She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.
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That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
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In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
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You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
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The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.
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My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
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Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
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