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" Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided. "

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" Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. "

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

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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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" Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. "

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" 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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" You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you. "

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" So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. "

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