Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
11 quotes
"The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of theaudience."
"Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.At least the ancient Greeks were being honest."
"The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish."
"After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy."
"There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them."
"Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue."
"In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power."
"You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp."
"History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse."
"Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal."
"Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?"