76 Quotes by Max Barry

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    There’s no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

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    Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What’s with that?

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    A panic state is not helpful to good decision making.

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    Corporations! It’s like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don’t mind that they’re monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That’s nuts.

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    I’m not a privacy nut, and I don’t care that much if these organizations want to know where I go and what I buy. But what bothers me is how HARD they’re all working for that data, how much money they’re spending, and how they never admit that’s what they want. It means that information must be really valuable for some reason, and I just wonder to who and why.

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    I love you,′ she said. She nestled closer, her hand moving up the back of his neck. The wind lifted. ‘Don’t kill me,’ he said. ‘I’m not going to,’ she said.

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    You might be an intelligent person, but once you let someone else filter the world for you, you have no way to critically analyze what you’re hearing. At best, absolute best case scenario, if they blatantly contradict themselves, you can spot that. But if they take basic care to maintain an internal logical consistency, which they all do, you’ve got nothing. You’ve delegated the ability to make up your mind.

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    And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.

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    That’s the thing you learn about values: they’re what people make up to justify what they did.

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