We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
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Chuck Palahniuk was a contemporary American novelist. Charles Michael Palahniuk 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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