“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”

—  Chuck Palahniuk

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Source: Stranger than Fiction

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American novelist, essayist 1962

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