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Chuck Palahniuk
“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Haruki Murakami
“Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.”
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Albert Camus
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
Albert Camus, The First Man

Douglas Coupland
“You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.”
Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

Hunter S. Thompson
“When the Pentagon feels free and even gleeful about killing anybody and Everybody who gets in the way of their vicious crusade for oil, the public soul of this country has changed forever, and professional sports is only a serenade for the death of the American dream. Mahalo.”
Hunter S. Thompson, Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the ESPN.com Sports Desk

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Trainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck PalahniukThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksLunar Park by Bret Easton EllisFactotum by Charles Bukowski
Best Anti-heroes in Books
601 books — 430 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTropic of Capricorn by Henry MillerThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksKilling Yourself to Live by Chuck KlostermanDead Babies by Martin Amis
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