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Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.
— John Lanchester
The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.
— John Lanchester
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
— John Lanchester
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
— John Lanchester
As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.
— John Lanchester
Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
— John Lanchester
For he that hath, to him shall be given.
— John Lanchester
I've been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I've found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.
— John Lanchester
The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.
— John Lanchester
Psychology looks at people from the inside. Economics looks at them from the outside.
— John Lanchester
It's as if people used the invention
— John Lanchester
The words lex monetae are really just a polite Latin way of saying, Suck it, creditors.
— John Lanchester
People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.
— John Lanchester
Of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.
— John Lanchester
Mere adequacy is never adequate.
— John Lanchester
The subject under discussion, economics, purports to be a science. It
— John Lanchester
It's not the fault of ghosts that we are so frightened of them.
— John Lanchester
Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.
— John Lanchester
Most hedge funds fail: 90 percent of all the hedge funds that have ever existed have closed or gone broke.
— John Lanchester
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.
— John Lanchester
Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.
— John Lanchester
We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
— John Lanchester
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
— John Lanchester
London created the Underground, and the Underground created London.
— John Lanchester
