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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

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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Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
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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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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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Life is short, death is forever
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People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.
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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
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The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
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