Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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About Chuck Palahniuk

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Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel was Fight Club, which...

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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

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How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

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