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" For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything. "

" The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. "

" 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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Nothing

" To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. "

" The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. "

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

" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. "

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

" 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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" Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. "

" I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. "