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" Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up. "

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" People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. "

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" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "

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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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" So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. "

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" A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. "

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

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" I have a lot of money. "

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" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "

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" Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. "

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" David Fincher is a genius. "

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" 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. "

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" My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting. "

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" My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. "

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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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" The answer is there is no answer. "

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" My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. "

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" The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it. "

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" I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy. "

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" My books didn't fit a marketing niche. "

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" In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. "

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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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" 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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" When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. "

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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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