# Quote — Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

> Imagine the books burning. And tapes and films and files, radios and televisions, will all go into that same bonfire. All those libraries and bookstores blazing away in the night. People will attack microwave relay stations. People with axes will chop every fiber-optic cable.

- Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md)
- Book: [Lullaby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk#Lullaby_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby/imagine-the-books

## More from this book

> According to Mona, you shouldn't kill people, because that drives you away from humanity. In order to justify killing, you have to make the victim your enemy. To justify any crime, you have to make the victim your enemy.

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> The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

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> I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

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