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Survivor: A Novel

“A wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief.”―San Francisco Chronicle Tender Branson―last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult―is dictating his life story into Flight 2039’s record

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Chuck Palahniuk (3)

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Boredom, Sin, Religion

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, The Unknown, Uncertainty, Wanting Someone You Can't Have

“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variable…”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: History, Chaos, Understanding, Free Will, Life