“Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'
'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.”
“I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.”
“You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.”
“We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.”
“THE FUZZY GREEN light gradually resolved itself into trees, and a narrow street of damp terra-cotta bricks stretched lazily into the distance.”
“When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.”
“Number two becoming number one, that's how life goes. Always demanding the best, that's a strange way of living.”
“Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see.”
“When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.”
“Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people’s music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it’s not just culture — these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they’re searching for things to despise.”
“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”
“Oh, yeah.” Carissa nodded. “They were googley-eyed in class on Friday. It was pretty steamy, the whole ‘I’m
screwing you with my eyes’ thing they had going on.” I choked on my drink. “That was not what we were doing. We were talking!”
“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
“Jag talar inte om din bok nu, men se hur många böcker som redan skrivits om Förintelsen. Till vilken nytta? Folk har inte blivit annorlunda...
Dom kanske behöver en ny Förintelse, en ännu värre...”
“You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.”
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