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You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

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
Anything
Conceive
Trapped
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Culture

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