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" Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more. "

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" Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away. "

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" Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. "

" That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. "

" Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. "

" When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month. "

" 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. "

" The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. "

" Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. "

" We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV. "

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Friends

Watch

" If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever. "

" I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. "

" 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. "

" Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die. "

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

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

" You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. "

" There will always be an underground. "

" My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas. "

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

Chuck Palahniuk

May

Die

" I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.' "

" I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Made

Cottage

" 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. "

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

" To be honest, I hate silence. "

" Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. "

" I'm only confrontational with my friends. "

" 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. "

" People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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People

" 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. "

" Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. "