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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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

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" The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it. "

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" My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. "

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" The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me. "

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" My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. "

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" My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits. "

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" For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. "

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" Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? "

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" My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves. "

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

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" I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees. "

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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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" The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it. "

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" 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. "

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" Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky? "

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" Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. "

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" I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men. "

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" If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. "

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

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" Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. "

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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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" Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? "

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