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Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
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How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
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All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
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If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.
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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
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If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?
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You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.
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The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
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The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it.
What's funny is, you'd be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world.
It's hard to call any of my novels fiction.
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If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
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The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
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At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
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Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
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What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
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How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Chuck Palahniuk
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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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