Until they become conscience they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
- George Orwell "1984"
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
-Chuck Palahniuk
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
-Chuck Palahniuk
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
-Chuck Palahniuk
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
-Chuck Palahniuk
If you love something set it free...but don't be surprised when it comes back with herpes.
-Chuck Palahniuk
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward.
Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.
He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.
He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.
And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.
-Chuck Palahniuk
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