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" Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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" My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel. "

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" What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. "

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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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" I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere. "

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" When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything. "

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" People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge. "

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" Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die. "

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" Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. "

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