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" The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it. "
Chuck Palahniuk
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" My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. "
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" 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. "
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" In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. "
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You
" Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. "
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" My policy is to not read any reviews. "
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Policy
Any
Read
" 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.' "
Chuck Palahniuk
Woman
Emotions
Thought
" You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. "
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Real
People
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Movies
History
Relationship
" I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Home
Feel Good
Good
" Once I start writing, I can't stop. "
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Writing
Start
Once
" You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. "
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Day
One Day
You
" People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge. "
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Loved
Fight
Challenge
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Religion
Intellectual
Lose
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Time
Great
More
" I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.' "
Chuck Palahniuk
Time
Think
People
" Every author has to eventually write a food book. "
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Book
Food
Write
" I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Child
Lucky
Me
" I just don't want to die without a few scars. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Few
Die
Without
" Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Happening
Always
Crap
" Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Happy
Anytime
Out
" I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Them
Everyone
Bring
" Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Chaos
Boring
Live
" At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.' "
Chuck Palahniuk
Like
May
Die
" For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Writing
Coping
Kind
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Envy
Things
Children
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Women
Men
People
" 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. "
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Feel
Animals
Animal
" 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. "
Chuck Palahniuk
Creation
Believe
God
" 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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See
Legs
Me
" My goal is never to make fun of religion. "
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Goal
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