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It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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