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21 " Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value.Imagine traveling the world until you're bored with every square inch. Imagine your emotions, your loves and hates and rivalries and victories, played out again and again until life is nothing more than a melo-dramatic soap opera. Until you regard the birth and death of other people with no more emotion than the wilted cut flowers you throw away. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Lullaby
22 " We're all of us haunted and haunting. "
23 " Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? "
24 " His computer password is "password. "
25 " We're the culture that cried wolf. "
26 " Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro. "
27 " Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell. "
28 " We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics. "
29 " All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. "
30 " These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. "
31 " You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble. "
32 " The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. "
33 " There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper. "
34 " You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough. "
35 " This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. "
36 " 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. "
37 " These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. "
38 " Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast. "
39 " Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words. "
40 " No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away. "