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What is the real purpose behi...

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 1029 quotes

In a way, a lot of my humor c...

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 1029 quotes

The only difference between s...

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

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I'm always trying to reach a ...

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 1029 quotes

Sometimes the past seems too ...

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

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A minute of perfection was wo...

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

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I take a lot of flak from the...

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

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Portland in particular is a c...

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Chuck Palahniuk 1029 quotes

I think, in a way, I invented...

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 something that has always been around.

Chuck Palahniuk 1029 quotes

If we all lived according to ...

If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

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I love the power of words - n...

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Chuck Palahniuk 1029 quotes

My first four books, from 'Fi...

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

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Every time I write something,...

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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You realize you have no contr...

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

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I don't care what they do wit...

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

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At the age of 31, I realized,...

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

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It takes a lot to get people ...

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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When I first read the story '...

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

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I am enormously uncool. I've ...

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

Chuck Palahniuk 1029 quotes

Your birth is a mistake you'l...

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk 1029 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....