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" Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away. "

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" In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people. "

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" Writing gave me the world. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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Gave

" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

" To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. "

" 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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" A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. "

" Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. "

" I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees. "

" My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves. "

" If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. "

" Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. "

" Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick. "

" My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits. "

" Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. "

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

" I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure. "

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Story

" I write nothing but contemporary romances. "

" Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more. "

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Great

" I have a lot of money. "

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" To be honest, I hate silence. "

" The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. "

" Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. "

" I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. "

" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "