Chuck Palahniuk
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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.” -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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“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.” -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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“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.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.” -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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“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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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.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.” -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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“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that’s much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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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.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“I think, in a way, I invented the term ‘fight club’ and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I’ve been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling…
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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Maybe it’s our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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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.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I’m doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I’m not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. – Chuck Palahniuk
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn’t…
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