# Quote — Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

> 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.

- Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md)
- Book: [Rant](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rant_(novel)#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant/beginning-with-santa

## More from this book

> The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant/the-future-you.md)

> Andy Warhol was wrong. In the future people won't be famous for fifteen minutes. No, in the future, everyone will sit next to someone famous for at least fifteen minutes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant/andy-warhol-was.md)

> Most of Party Crashing was just us driving in cars, talking.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant/most-of-party.md)