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" Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Butt
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" 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. "
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" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "
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" Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. "
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" 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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" Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' "
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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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" Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy. "
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" My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter. "
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" 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. "
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" All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. "
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" The answer is there is no answer. "
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