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" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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" I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure. "

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" There will always be an underground. "

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" 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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" I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie. "

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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. "

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" Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. "

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" All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. "

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

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

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" No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. "

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" A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music. "

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" While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book. "

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" Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer. "

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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 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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" 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 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. "

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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. "

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" I'm only confrontational with my friends. "

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" I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. "

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" I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. "

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" We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. "

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" Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. "

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" If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. "

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