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" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "
Chuck Palahniuk
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Issues
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" 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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" I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting. "
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" My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. "
Chuck Palahniuk
People
Family
History
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Sun
Outdoors
Want
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Trying
Find
Chaos
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
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Year
Stories
" I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. "
Chuck Palahniuk
I Wish
Wish
Think
" We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Feel
Animals
Animal
" I come from generations of farmers. "
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Come
Generations
Farmers
" 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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Crazy
Believe
You
" I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. "
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Out
Take
Flak
" 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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You
Death
Character
" It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Model
Done
Connection
" My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Teacher
Man
Writing
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Beginning
Dark
Going
" My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Enough
Future
Remember
" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Stronger
Power
Men
" David Fincher is a genius. "
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Genius
David
" Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? "
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Had
Written
Would
" Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses. "
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Way
Story
People
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Skills
Artist
Feelings
" While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Ignore
Book
Create
" Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. "
Chuck Palahniuk
God
Toilet
Pet
" If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. "
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Fun
Chance
Short
" There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Books
Out
People
" 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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Success
Think
You
" The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. "
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Young
Story
Nowhere
" I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things. "
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Myself
Think
Fun
" The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives. "
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Attack
Characters
Ourselves
" So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. "
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