Chuck Palahniuk: "Hysteria is only possible with an audience."

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Charles Michael Palahniuk (; PAW-lə-nick; Ukrainian pronunciation: [pɐlɐɦˈnʲuk], born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressive 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, Fight...

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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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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.

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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.

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