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" When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. "

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" There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. "

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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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" For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. "

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" Writing gave me the world. "

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" I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. "

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" 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. "

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" With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have. "

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" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "

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" A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. "

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" Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "

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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 goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. "

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" Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. "

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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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" I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. "

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" I haven't shoplifted since I was 13. "

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" I'm only confrontational with my friends. "

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" At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it. "

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" I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. "

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" I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees. "

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" There will always be an underground. "

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" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

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" I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. "

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" My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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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" 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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" When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. "

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" 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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