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"When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke."

Chuck Palahniuk

"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."

Chuck Palahniuk

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

Chuck Palahniuk

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

Chuck Palahniuk

"Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood."

Chuck Palahniuk

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."

Chuck Palahniuk

"Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life."

Chuck Palahniuk

"That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community"

Chuck Palahniuk

"Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done."

Chuck Palahniuk

"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."

Chuck Palahniuk

"What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

Chuck Palahniuk

"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine."

Chuck Palahniuk

"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead."

Chuck Palahniuk

"The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress."

Chuck Palahniuk

"Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism."

Chuck Palahniuk

"We just had a near-life experience!"

Chuck Palahniuk

"The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate."

Chuck Palahniuk

"You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm."

Chuck Palahniuk

"It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die."

Chuck Palahniuk

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

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