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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Being Cut Find Happiness Only Open Risk True True Happiness Way

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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Create Die Forever Goal Live Something Will

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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Along Being Destroy Destroyed Destroying Either Failing Getting Jump Make Men Next People Rebellious Resisting Themselves Ultimately Unless Women You Yourself

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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Butt Chicken Does Feathers Make Sticking Up You Your

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Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Acknowledge Allow Best Best Way Deal Depict Destroy Laugh People Power Rather Refusing Sometimes Than Them Things Unpleasant Very Way Ways

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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Alligators Down God Humans Just Maybe Pet Toilet

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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.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Acts Always Get Heartbreaking Lot Place Point Profane Profanity Reach Really Romantic Through Touching Transcendent Trying Unconventional Way

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Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Able About Being Boring Chaos Continue Everyone Exhausted George Going Hate How Incorporated Left Live Lives Make More Need Novel Our Our Lives Perhaps Short-Term Some Sort Them Think Unfulfilled Violent

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The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Accepting Bright Bright Future Forms Future More Readers Stories Varied

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My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Am Currently Curtain Dead Discuss Drawn Easy Existing Family Feel Friends Friends And Family History Life My Life Now People Private Protective Terms Those Threatened Very Where Who I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 21st, 1962

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