Author of quotes: Chuck Palahniuk. Page 2

It turns out that fundamentalists, creationists, and other Christians were right. Oh, how I wish I could tell my parents: Kansas was right. Yes, these snake-holders and Pentecostals, sectarians degenerated from closely related marriages, turned out to be cooler than my mom and dad - billionaires and secular humanists. The dark forces of evil have indeed scattered dinosaur bones everywhere and forged excavation reports to mislead humanity. Evolution is complete nonsense, in which we unconditionally believed.

Hell is the place where desires take you away from God. It is these desires that do not allow the Divine plan of the perfection of your soul to come true.

For almost all of human history, Leonard says, people have imagined hell as something like a hospital where we go to get rid of the habit of life.

Dying is worse than failing an exam, than getting into the police, than having a kid at prom. We screwed up big time and there's nothing to fix.

Now that they're dead, don't they feel like they've disappointed everyone who once loved them? So many people worked hard to raise them, feed them and educate them - and now Archer, Leonard or Babette are not at all upset that they let their loved ones down? Don't they think that death is the worst sin they could commit? Do they not suspect that our death caused the living such pain that will not pass until the end of life?

Hope is a tough and sticky burdock that needs to be torn off. This is a destructive passion that must be got rid of.

Every new maid wants to fold your laundry in a new way. It means: be smart and don't let others control you.

In my experience, usually girls are extremely smart - until they grow breasts.

Death is worse than addiction to alcohol or heroin, death is the greatest weakness.

Life is short. Death is endless.

I'm talking about free will. Do we have this freedom or does God dictate everything that we do, say and want according to a given scenario? Are we free in our decisions, or do the media and established culture control our desires and actions - literally from birth?

It's not about love and hate. It's about power. After all, people read a poem not at all in order to kill their child. They just want the baby to sleep. They want to take over him, they want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to do it your way.

You say to yourself: noise is what defines silence. Without noise, we would not appreciate silence. Noise is the exception to the rule. Think of boundless open space, of piercing cold and silence, where your wife and child are waiting for you. I don't need heaven. Silence is the desired reward.

George Orwell was wrong. Big Brother is not watching you. Big Brother sings and dances. He takes out white rabbits from a magic hat. All the time while you are awake, Big Brother entertains you by diverting your attention. He does everything to not give you time to think. He does everything to keep you busy. He does everything to make your imagination wither and die. Until it finally dies. Turn into a useless appendage like an appendix. Big Brother is making sure you don't get distracted by anything serious. But it would be better if he was watching you, because it is much worse - when so many things are shoved into you. With so much going on around you, you no longer want to think for yourself. You no longer pose a threat. When everyone's imagination atrophies, no one wants to remake the world.