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" Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person. "

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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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" At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.' "

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" I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting. "

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" I'm only confrontational with my friends. "

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" The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. "

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" I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version. "

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" I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure. "

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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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" 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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" Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating. "

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

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" It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. "

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" Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I think America is just so in love with conflict. "

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" You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. "

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

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" People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. "

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" I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. "

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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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" People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. "

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" I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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