Chuck Palahniuk Quotes.

1. "History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

2. "Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child. Despite the fact most parents don't recognize this function, they still practice the exercise. Rant also saw how resolving the illusions is crucial to how the child uses any new skills. A child who is never coached with Santa Claus may never develop an ability to imagine. To him, nothing exists except the literal and tangible. A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder. But a child who relinquishes the illusions of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, that child may come away with the most important skill set. That child may recognize the strength of his own imagination and faith. He will embrace the ability to create his own reality. That child becomes his own authority. He determines the nature of his world. His own vision. And by doing so, by the power of his example, he determines the reality of the other two types: those who can't imagine, and those who can't trust."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

3. "Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

4. "Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

5. "If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

6. "Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

7. "you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?"
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

8. "Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

9. "A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

10. "Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Rant