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You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

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
Kill
Feeling
Feelings
Anything
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Apathy
Skin
Skins
Lifetime

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