"If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.”
“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.”
“That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.”
“And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.”
“Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.162, Dell
“More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare”
“Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel is not an optional extra, because they are aware of the urgency of transmitting this Good News to others...I assure you that the Spirit of Jesus today is inviting you young people to be bearers of the good news of Jesus to your contemporaries.”

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