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" 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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" 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. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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Trying

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" For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth. "

" I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. "

" Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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" If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground. "

" There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. "

" Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. "

" As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone. "

Sienna Miller

" Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. "

" By all means use some time to be alone. "

" After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again. "

" 'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

" My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. "

" We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax. "

" Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer. "

" I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward. "

Guillermo Diaz

Loner

Awkward

" Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. "

" The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. "

Alberto Giacometti

Alone

Find

" Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions. "

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Art

Alone

Curiosity

" You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. "

" The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. "

" When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away. "

" The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it. "

" Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you. "

" I haven't shoplifted since I was 13. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Since

" I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. "

" The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Artist

Alone

" A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. "

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You

Story

" You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience. "