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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.

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
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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
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Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
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