Who is Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American freelance journalist and 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 name.

Early life

Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington, the son of Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk. He has French and Ukrainian ancestry. His paternal grandfather migrated from Ukraine to Canada and then to New York in 1907. Palahniuk grew up living in a mobile home in Burbank, Washington. His parents separated when he was 14 years old, and they subsequently divorced, often l...
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Imgfolklore: chuck palahniuk novel about a gas station clerk who works night shifts and all the strange recurring characters he encounters (he is schizophrenic)
Coldpurp: “the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open” -chuck palahniuk
Sarcasmliving: if you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. -chuck palahniuk
Fernitova: on page 19 of 164 of fight club, by chuck palahniuk
Michalskijen: “the one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” chuck palahniuk, invisible monsters
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Sonnet Lii: What? Dost Thou Mean
 by Michael Drayton

What? Dost thou mean to cheat me of my heart?
To take all mine and give me none again?
Or have thine eyes such magic or that art
That what they get they ever do retain?
Play not the tyrant, but take some remorse;
Rebate thy spleen, if but for pity's sake;
Or, cruel, if thou canst not, let us 'scourse,
And, for one piece of thine, my whole heart take.
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