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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Mind
Choke
Privacy
Complete
Ignorance
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.
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On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
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