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

Chuck Palahniuk

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" Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. "

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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. "

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" Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? "

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" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. "

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

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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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" I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. "

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" If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. "

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" Once I start writing, I can't stop. "

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" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

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" My policy is to not read any reviews. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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 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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" Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. "

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

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