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


Chuck Palahniuk

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My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...
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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber th...
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He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
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My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...
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One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they'r...
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet the...
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Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...
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Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
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With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
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The things you own end up owning you.
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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
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We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
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We just had a near-life experience!
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This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
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Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
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Real discoveries come from chaos.
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The future is just wasted on some people.
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You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
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If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
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There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
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Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
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You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
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I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
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