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As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
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So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.
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We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
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