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

Chuck Palahniuk

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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. "

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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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" Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless. "

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" Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. "

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" 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. "

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" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "

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" I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet. "

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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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" Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. "

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" I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. "

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" If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. "

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" Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. "

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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. "

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" So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. "

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" Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. "

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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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" My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter. "

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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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" People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. "

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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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" You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. "

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" I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. "

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