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

Chuck Palahniuk

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" The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense. "

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" Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. "

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" With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have. "

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" At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it. "

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" Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. "

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" I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die. "

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" Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. "

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" 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. "

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" Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. "

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

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" If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? "

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" I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. "

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" Writing gave me the world. "

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" I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie. "

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" Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. "

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" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating. "

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" Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet. "

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" My policy is to not read any reviews. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. "

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" 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. "

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" The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. "

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" Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. "

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