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" More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Like
Really
Myself
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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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" 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'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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" When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating. "
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" I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. "
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Everyone
Bring
" 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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You
" 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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" 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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Want
Diet
" 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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Rage
Need
" You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. "
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How
Over
" If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. "
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You
People
" 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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Way
People
" 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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See
Legs
Me
" The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. "
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Fall
You
Lower
" Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. "
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Famous
Family
Face
" Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. "
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Skills
Artist
Feelings
" My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. "
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Boy
Girl
Gets
" Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. "
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Truth
Truth Is
Live
" When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.' "
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Me
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Tell
" Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. "
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Relationship
" In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. "
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You
" 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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People
Loneliness
" The first step to eternal life is you have to die. "
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Die
First
" I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write. "
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Anything
Write
" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "
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" If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. "
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" You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. "
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Minute
" As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person. "
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Think
You
" My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. "
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Head
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