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Chuck Palahniuk Quote

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!

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About Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel was Fight Club, which was adapted into a film of the same title.