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" Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky? "

Chuck Palahniuk

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" I come from generations of farmers. "

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" In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people. "

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" 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. "

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" My policy is to not read any reviews. "

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" It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up. "

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" The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. "

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" Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? "

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" What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. "

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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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" Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die. "

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" We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV. "

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" My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. "

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" A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. "

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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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" People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. "

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" I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself. "

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" I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. "

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" The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. "

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" I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version. "

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" My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. "

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

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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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