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It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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