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" My books are all fantastically sentimental. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. "

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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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" In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. "

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" At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it. "

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" The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. "

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