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“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“We condition the masses to hate the country . . . But simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports. At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus. So that they consume...” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz...” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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Chuck Palahniuk (4)
Aldous Huxley (2)
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Andy Warhol (1)
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Fight Club (2)
Brave New World (2)
Lullaby (2)
The Catcher in the Rye (1)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (1)