The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.


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You decide your own level of involvement.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has utte...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in a...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would al...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th...
CHUCK DALY
Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
CHUCK KNOX
Playing safe is only playing.
CHUCK OLSON
Practice without improvement is meaningless.
CHUCK KNOX
It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
CHUCK HILLIS