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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.
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