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" A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music. "

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" The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Dream

Powerful

People

" We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. "

" Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. "

" We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. "

" A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. "

" Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. "

" If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. "

" I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself. "

" In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. "

" I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is. "

" More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Really

Myself

" Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. "

" I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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Cottage

" My policy is to not read any reviews. "

" My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves. "

" I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things. "

" I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. "

" We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings. "

" Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. "

" We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. "

" I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. "

" When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. "

" The first step to eternal life is you have to die. "

" Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them. "

" Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. "

" My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "

" I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. "

" I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors. "

" The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it. "