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My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: About Alone Always Books Community Elevated Filthy Isolation Loneliness May Often People Poor Somebody Taken Who

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Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Abortion Against Always Around Baby Backlash Core Emotions Exhausting Feminism Give Horror Issues Like Our Right Social Social Issues Stories Thought Us Way Which Wives Woman

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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Because Earnestness Entire Extreme Generation Hippies Ironic Kind Me Most Reaction Sarcastic Seemed Took

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My goal is never to make fun of religion.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Fun Goal Make Never Religion

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My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Always Boy Endings Gets Girl Happy Stories Twisted

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'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Amy Animal Gates Kingdom Lean Me Prose Quality

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I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Could Financed Get Guts Movie Think

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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Chaos Find Horrific Make Order Out People Some Things Trying Way World

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I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Books Columbia Fantastic Get Just Lived Many Nearly New New York Outdoors Shines Sun Sun Shines Want Written York

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Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Anytime Bodily Happy Out Someone Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 21st, 1962

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