“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”

— Chuck Palahniuk , Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

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American novelist, essayist 1962

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