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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

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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...

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How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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