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" You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. "

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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" 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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" We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings. "

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" The first step to eternal life is you have to die. "

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" I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere. "

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" That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. "

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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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" The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. "

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" Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. "

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

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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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" 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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" In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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