“To negotiate is only to attempt to dictate the terms of your own surrender.” — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“she had made her choices in life, and her choices had made her in return.” — Dexter Palmer Choice Copy Share Image
“She has sold them some of her time for the money she needs to live, but hoarded these moments for herself, and… — Dexter Palmer Money Copy Share Image
“If there are very few eureka moments, then at least there are a thousand little failures, that point the way toward a… — Dexter Palmer Failure Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that I'm just like you, and, just like you, sometimes I have a little trouble holding things… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page,… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't… — Dexter Palmer Art Copy Share Image
“Let us find our own paths; let us make our own attempts at fashioning this world; let us bear the sting of… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words… — Dexter Palmer Flesh and blood Copy Share Image
“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and… — Dexter Palmer Computers Copy Share Image
“One life and another: that’s what matters. You have to understand: history can change people, but people can change history too. Because… — Dexter Palmer History Copy Share Image
“They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Write down everything you remember. You’ll want to have it written down to look back on later, when your mind sands all… — Dexter Palmer Dream Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it occurs to me that I think about you more than I ought to think about anything besides physics. Look at… — Dexter Palmer Physics Copy Share Image
“Every story needs a voice to tell it though, or it goes unheard. So I have to try. I still have enough… — Dexter Palmer Language Copy Share Image
“The true enemy of humanity was not Evil, an abstract idea personified by some sort of crimson-faced creature dancing in flames, but… — Dexter Palmer Enemy Copy Share Image
“There were times, and this was one of them, when Rebecca quietly yearned for twentieth-century definitions of civility, when commonly shared air… — Dexter Palmer Civility Copy Share Image
“When I live in the age of miracles," Allan said, "your mother was the greatest miracles of all. Just by standing near… — Dexter Palmer Love Copy Share Image
“There are no new stories in the world anymore, and no more storytellers. There is nothing left but fragments of phrases that… — Dexter Palmer Single moment Copy Share Image
“So if Rebecca wanted to hear the news about someone, she either had to e-mail them (which was only a little less… — Dexter Palmer Remembering Copy Share Image
“I’m very self-motivated,” she’d state with an assertiveness that she didn’t quite feel in her gut, and the HR guy would look… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Big Data’s gift, the way it kept itself growing stronger, was in its ability to persuade the majority of people that the… — Dexter Palmer Computers Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“A number of terrible things about falling in love make it not worth the time and the effort. But the worst of… — Dexter Palmer Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Setup: Alicia (the scientist) is speaking to an elementary school class about what she does. She’s just taken scads of questions from… — Dexter Palmer Elementary school Copy Share Image
“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted… — Dexter Palmer Computers Copy Share Image
“Still, though, he picked movies that someone his age should have had zero interest in—comedies about rich, lonely old men having their… — Dexter Palmer Comedies Copy Share Image
“This is why it's good manners to give gifts in wrappers: so that, for a moment, that beast in all of us… — Dexter Palmer Desires Copy Share Image
“Other lives wind themselves into your own and then leave for distant places or wink out like extinguished lamps, and then all… — Dexter Palmer Life Copy Share Image
“You had a duty not to squander your human potential. You were supposed to go out and shape the world in your… — Dexter Palmer Bachelor Copy Share Image
“Hello, Tracey Wilson, from the great state of Illinois! I think Fanny and Alexander is a great choice for a weekend rental.… — Dexter Palmer Best christmas Copy Share Image
