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" Every woman is just a different kind of problem. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. "

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" My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. "

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

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

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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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" 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

" 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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" 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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" I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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" If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. "

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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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" My policy is to not read any reviews. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

" I just don't want to die without a few scars. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. "

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" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "

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