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We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.
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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.
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Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.
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A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
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What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.
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The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
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Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.
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If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.
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When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
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Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
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There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
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Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.
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I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
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There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.
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What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.
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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
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And i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.
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No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake
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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.
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As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author.
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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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Born:
February 21, 1962
(age 62)
Bio:
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.
Known for:
Fight Club (1996)
Invisible Monsters (1999)
Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (2007)
Survivor (1999)
Damned (2011)
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