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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
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The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.
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I don't want to die without any scars.
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
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Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
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Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
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Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
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You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
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