26 Quotes by Martijn Benders

Een persoon kan ongeveer 3000 boeken lezen in zijn leven. Geef jij iets vijf sterren, dan zeg je eigenlijk: dat moet een van die 3000 boeken zijn. Een liefhebber zou het liefst 3000 meesterwerken lezen. Dus al die drie en vier sterrenboeken: ik lees ze niet, en als het vijf sterren heeft zonder dat het in de 3000 thuishoort dan zijn we getuige van een literaire misdaad.

Work. Work doesn't fit any season. In the winter its too cold, in the spring too alive, the summer too hot and fall is too nostalgic for work. Work is not natural and should be banned.

I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-placement critics the only weapon one has is either word of mouth or quotes, and me I highly prefer the latter. So I have just decided that I will only post to facebook through goodreads quotes. That's policy that makes a lot of sense for a writer.

On the right, a brigade of trolls. On the left, squabling civil servants. Invasion of zombies. Have I managed to summarize the zeitgeist now?

If Lenin would have had facebook, there would never have been any Russian Revolution. He would have had five followers, a handful of friends, and he'd type frantically into his own bubble. If Hitler would have had facebook, we'd still be plagued by a constant stream of conspiracy sites. Damn, how lucky are we exactly that none of these geezers had facebook and meddled about with the world instead.

Facebook is a ghetto for the creative part of society. It was created so the rest of society can function without having to pay attention to these weird folks that just keep yapping about stuff no one understands. The journalists and politicians are all on Twitter, producing the sort of soundbites the media love. Hence, the division between facebook and twitter essentially is the new class division, created by the powers-that-be to enforce the world to stay exactly as it is.

I bought a backscrabber. One more reason to have no need for a relationship.

That 'power grab' of Netflix has only led to an incridible amount of horrendous mediocrity. They should simply have focussed on collecting the best series in the world instead of producing them. Its as if a poetry collector suddenly thinks he should become the biggest publisher in the world. Cut out the middle men, but what if those middle men are you?

I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?