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" All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. "

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" So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life. "

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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. "

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" One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided. "

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" People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. "

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" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "

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" You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. "

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" In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people. "

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" Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "

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" In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us. "

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" Every author has to eventually write a food book. "

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" When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.' "

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" I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. "

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" My writing process isn't a very organized thing. "

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" My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers. "

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" I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. "

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" What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. "

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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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" To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. "

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" Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. "

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" If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. "

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" My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy. "

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" 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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" You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. "

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

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" As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more? "

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" I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. "

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