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" Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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" If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? "

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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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" 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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" Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. "

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" My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas. "

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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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" I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. "

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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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