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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?
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
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Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
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We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
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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.
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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?
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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
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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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There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
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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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Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
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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.
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I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
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Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
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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.
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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
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I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
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If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
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People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.
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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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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 know anything.
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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
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The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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