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

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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" Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. "

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" I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. "

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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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" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "

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" I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes. "

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" One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided. "

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" My goal is never to make fun of religion. "

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" A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. "

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" My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. "

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" Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. "

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" My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "

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" The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. "

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" I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. "

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

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" The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. "

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

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" My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe. "

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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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" Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. "

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" Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. "

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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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