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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
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This isn’t really death, Tyler says, We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old. I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.
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