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It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Being Being Done Connection Done Every Explained Model Much Seems Thoroughly Where Writing

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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

Topics: Awareness Awful Beginning Brighter Coming Dark Despair Even Going Hope Much Occur Pit Profane Start Things You

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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

Topics: Best Doing Exercise Free Get Happen Happens How Ideas Labor Leaves Manual Me Mindless Occur Remarkable Seem Some Sure

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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

Topics: Around Characters Circumstances Drama Engage Enlightened Enrolled Fail Happens Idiot Immediate Love Reactive Really Them Who

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I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Apart Doomed Envision Fall Found Happen Leaving Make Make It Happen Moment Once Relationship Something Sort Starts Think Way You I Think I Can

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Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Anything Been Date Me Nobody Reviled

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

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Alone Boring Character Most Scenes Where

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As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Always Grow More Older Risk Think Why Young

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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

Topics: Enough Future Goal Happen Like Long More Remember Remembered Stay Thing Trick

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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 something that has always been around.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Always Apply Around Been Club Created Deal Existed Fight Fight Club Great Great Deal Had Invented Inventing Label Labeling Language Money Never Nobody Paid Really Something Term Them Things Think Two Way Words I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 21st, 1962

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