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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1962

Topics

Freedom Writing Hair Book I Can

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

Max Lucado

Good Challenge Struggle People Me

The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.

Angela Merkel

Future Goal Will Decide Own Actions

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life Death Become Going Still Dies

I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

Amiri Baraka

Life Time I Am People American Know

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

Michael Shermer

Television Always Audience Because

Do you know it was a year a ago today?

Jay London

Today Year You Know Do You Know

I found in Rick Rubin a kindred soul. When I visited his home and looked in his library, I saw he was reading the very same New Age books I had picked up the month before.

Donovan

Home Age Soul Reading Library New

I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.

Coy Bowles

Family Good Mother Musicians Long

If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.

Brian Fallon

Me Crazy You Say Way My Own

I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.

Boris Johnson

Opportunity Believe Now I Believe

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Alison Lurie

War Sweet Kitchen Smoke Cookies Hot

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

Willie Nelson

Time Church First Time Old First