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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.
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With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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