Nick Harkaway Quotes

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Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

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A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.

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And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

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A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

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If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

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In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

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The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

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