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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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
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" The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense. "
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" When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. "
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" If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler. "
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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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" Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. "
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" Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen. "
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" I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy. "
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" Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. "
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" At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.' "
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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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" The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. "
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" The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. "
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" I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors. "
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Outdoors
Want
" People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. "
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" Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. "
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" The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. "
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" 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. "
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" Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. "
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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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" Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. "
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" We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV. "
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" David Fincher is a genius. "
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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. "
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" The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. "
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