60 Quotes by Hari Kunzru

Now what I think of when I think of my “self” is the atrocious waste of my years.

Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality.

Distance can create longing. It can open up the gap into which all must fall.

I wanted to store the world and play it back just as I’d found it, without change or addition.

Let me be clear. I play two kinds of music. God's and the other kind.

Maybe I am one of the last people in history who will feel the things I do. Maybe everything I hoped about the world, and hoped to bring about in it, is doomed to fail. Instead of learning useful things, I have filled my brain with obsolete philosophies, ideas with no more purchase or veracity than the four humors or spontaneous generations. I could say I regret it all, the useless information, but what would be the point? It’s too late now. These are the elements that make me who I am.

Confrontation is always a sign of failure. When the system is working, the energies of those who resist it are always diffused, our anger spiraling down into some soft and foggy place where there's no obvious enemy, just a row of civil service desks and a faint, receding peal trumpets.

—I know what you mean. The sample rate——Fuck the sample rate. It could be a million hertz, I wouldn’t care. It could be all the hertz. This bullshit about lossless. There’s always a loss, don’t you get that? There is always something missing.

You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals.