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" We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more? "

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" Once I start writing, I can't stop. "

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" Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. "

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" My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy. "

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" I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. "

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" Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen. "

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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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" I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. "

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" We kind of deny the stages of life. "

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" Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses. "

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" You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. "

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" When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.' "

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" At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.' "

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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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" 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. "

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" Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "

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" 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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" Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. "

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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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" I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. "

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" My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting. "

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