“After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“Skeptizismus ist das Privileg derjenigen, die nicht betroffen sind.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of disinformation and fraud, that infinite sea of piracy, the great electorate where the constituency of billions voted their approval with a click of a mouse. The internet. It brought governments down and rewrote history...”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“And I extend this to so many of our corporate leaders. I ask you to draw your eye down to our glorious professional leaders in the commercial arena, in this most material of ages. How many of them should be in charge of anything, let alone other people?”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“Es hätte alles so schön sein können. Ein bisschen billige Psychotherapie, angereichert mit mittelalterlichen Ideen von Askese und Frömmigkeit. Ein Leben ohne falschen Stolz und Egoismus. Das jedenfalls waren die ursprünglichen Ideale. Alles eingehüllt in allerlei Mystizismus, damit es toll aussah.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“A day of fiscal reckoning was nigh.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
“He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he’d been damaged by it, permanently.”
― Adam Nevill, quote from Last Days
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“say, you are all obliged to help one another by word and doctrine, and the example of good works, and in every other respect in which your neighbor may be seen to be in need; counseling him exactly as you would yourselves,”
― Catherine of Siena, quote from The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena
“I’ve been slowly falling for you for a long time, and I’m afraid I fell the rest of the way in love with you last night, and you’re so much more than my darling. You’re my treasure.”
― Kristen Proby, quote from Forever with Me
“Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity. I am wise now, if not much older, and I know it is better to have all things, high and low, than to have the high only.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Shadow and Claw
“In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.”
― R.K. Narayan, quote from The Guide
“Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
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