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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Pasco
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
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What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
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