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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.
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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
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