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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Constantly Different Disappoint Entirely Expected Eyes Here Idea Like Meet Meeting Moment No Idea People See Something Them You

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The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Attack Characters Every Hour Lives Our Our Lives Ourselves Person Really Themselves Third

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Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Become Lot People Real Real World Scary September Since The Real World Time Too World

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Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: About Always Better Bit Book Church Dead Die Doing Down Falling Going Life Like Little Little Bit More Over Perfect Then Thing Trying Writing You Your

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Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Day Just Kind Like Nothing People Sundays Tend Visit Where

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My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Books Fit Marketing Niche

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The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Challenging Else Get Look Me Men Nowhere Risky Story Young Young Men

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I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Away Catch Enough Fallacy Furniture Get Grown-Up Life Live Modern Modern Life Myself Nice Off Ok Stress Then

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We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Animal Animals Another Behavior Best Define Feel Fiction Humane Likely More Much Person Sympathy Than Thus Truly Uses

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Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Barry Came Collection Collections Decade Dynamic Every Get Hannah Heartbreaking In The Past Mark Past Richard Short Short Stories Stories Stunning Thom Those

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 21st, 1962

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