“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.”

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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American novelist, essayist 1962

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