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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
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Privacy
Complete
Ignorance

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