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" To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. "
Chuck Palahniuk
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" A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. "
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" 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. "
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" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "
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" I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. "
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" 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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" Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. "
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" I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. "
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" My books are all fantastically sentimental. "
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" I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. "
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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 really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. "
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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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" I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes. "
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" I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. "
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" Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them. "
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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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