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Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

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
Ruins
Build
Standing
Dark
Anything
Right

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