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My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Fight Fighting Fought Hide Lot Night Parents Sound Television Think Turn Up Used Would I Think

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Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Any Century Device Dominant Fiction Great King Longer More Our Our Time Storytelling Time Worked 19Th Century

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A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Analyze Entire Hold How Like Machine Mind Really Short Short Story Something Story Thing Works You Your

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Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Find Happens Little Longer Most My Time Need Novels Than Them Three Time Times Very Want Waste

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I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Because Catch Culture Doing Fact Fun In Fact Making Myself Never Some Stupid Things Think Very

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To be honest, I hate silence.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Hate Honest Silence To Be Honest

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So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Against Club Fathers Fight Fight Club Much Rant

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For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Coping Kind Me Mechanism Writing

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I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: About Adopt Always Been Cultures Curious Different Fringe Model People Presenting Social Temporarily Themselves Very Way Where

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The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Annoys Destroy Everything Held Literature Magical Me Person Pretense Really Revered Sort Stage Tour Try Way Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 21st, 1962

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