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Secrets are the enablers of antisocial, immoral and destructive behavior.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

But there is risk.
But the risk is worth it.

Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right.

What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind.

PRIVACY IS THEFT

Dan nodded emphatically, as if his mouth had just uttered, independently, something that his ears found quite profound.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there.

Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

Memory, perhaps, should have no physical shape.

Loud it is in here? You hear the echo? - Help! Help! - I'm so disappointed in you, Kev.

We were entwined so tightly that I was afraid to breathe, lest she move at all.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle.

Who else but utopians could make utopia?

Things that exist exist, and everything is on their side.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Here is a drawing of a stapler:

People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

- If it's like us, why is it somewhere else? Deng asked. Dut

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt -

The needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

She backed away, looking at him, his shirt hiked up, his crotch exposed. She could think only of a campfire, one small log, all of it doused in milk.

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

1. The Amazing Race
2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans
3. Oh.
(Joe O'Neill, from Opium)

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.
After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

The Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring - the event was able to amass 2.3 million smiles for the school

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

I often cannot believe the things I do.

My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book
Sleeping with Jesus
Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots
Everybody Poops (Except God)

Nicaragua sounded dangerous; she liked the word. Nicaragua! It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table - Nicaragua!

Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

Her student loans were voracious and demanded monthly feedings,

I just said, 'I hope she can get by with a salary of sixty thousand dollars.'

Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.

Don't you think if someone like me, someone who invented most of this shit, is scared, don't you think you should be scared, too?

I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

I didn't care anymore what my ancestors would think. We were the Red Army and needed to eat.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.

This was uncalled for.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

First of all, I know it's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. Individually you don't know what you're doing collectively.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

We see the beauty within and cannot say no.

Every fucking suburb has a SWAT team.

There were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

I live because I do not exist.

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.