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

Chuck Palahniuk

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" We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. "

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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. "

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" A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. "

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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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" I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die. "

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" More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. "

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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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" The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. "

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" If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. "

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" The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. "

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" 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. "

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" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "

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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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" Masochism is a valuable job skill. "

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" My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel. "

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" We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. "

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" If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. "

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" There will always be an underground. "

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" The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives. "

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" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

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" There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. "

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" I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. "

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" If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler. "

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" 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. "

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" What we don't understand we can make mean anything. "

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