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My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers. - Chuck Palahniuk
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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. - Chuck Palahniuk
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My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. - Chuck Palahniuk
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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
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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. - Chuck Palahniuk
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Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. - Chuck Palahniuk
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. - Chuck Palahniuk
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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. - Chuck Palahniuk
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When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything. - Chuck Palahniuk
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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? - Chuck Palahniuk
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. - Chuck Palahniuk
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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. - Chuck Palahniuk
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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. - Chuck Palahniuk
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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. - Chuck Palahniuk
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? - Chuck Palahniuk
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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. - Chuck Palahniuk
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Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. - Chuck Palahniuk
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What we don't understand we can make mean anything. - Chuck Palahniuk
#Anything
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#Mean
#Understand
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. - Chuck Palahniuk
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. - Chuck Palahniuk
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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? - Chuck Palahniuk
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. - Chuck Palahniuk
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Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. - Chuck Palahniuk
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#Head
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If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. - Chuck Palahniuk
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. - Chuck Palahniuk
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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. - Chuck Palahniuk
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#Ideas
#Legend
#People
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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. - Chuck Palahniuk
#Create
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#Forever
#Live
#Will
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. - Chuck Palahniuk
#Alone
#Being
#People
#Scared
#Together
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. - Chuck Palahniuk
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#Home
#Joy
#Love
#Relationship
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. - Chuck Palahniuk
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#True
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Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. - Chuck Palahniuk
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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. - Chuck Palahniuk
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#Imagination
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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. - Chuck Palahniuk
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#Fun
#Life
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