“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Survivor

Source: Survivor

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American novelist, essayist 1962

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