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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big picture #close-up #everything #forgetting #look

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. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#ever #every #every time #i #i always

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

#apply #around #been #club #created

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consolation #finally #give #god #maybe

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#absolutely #emotionally #everything #filled #get

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#feel #i #know #like #made

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#chaos #emotion #get #good #i

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#ever #i #never #sequel #will

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

#being done #connection #done #every #explained