“She put the words back in the envelope, because fuck doing that again.” — Max Barry Envelope Copy Share Image
“With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable.” — Max Barry Independent Copy Share Image
“It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have… — Max Barry Architecture Copy Share Image
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. — Max Barry Communicate Copy Share Image
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed. — Max Barry Country Copy Share Image
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a… — Max Barry Body Copy Share Image
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. — Max Barry Justify Copy Share Image
“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You… — Max Barry Fiction Copy Share Image
“To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.” — Max Barry People Copy Share Image
Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much… — Max Barry Break Copy Share Image
“I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It… — Max Barry Love Copy Share Image
I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President… — Max Barry Adidas Copy Share Image
“This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.… — Max Barry Guillotine Copy Share Image
“I just read them for fun." "Dictionaries?" "Yes." "That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful." "Awful used to mean 'full of… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests.… — Max Barry Heart beat Copy Share Image
“[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was… — Max Barry Killing Copy Share Image
Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat… — Max Barry Ads Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Book Copy Share Image
“Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God.… — Max Barry Brain Copy Share Image
“All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power… — Max Barry Discipline Copy Share Image
“He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard… — Max Barry Engineers Copy Share Image
“In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful.… — Max Barry Looking good Copy Share Image
Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but… — Max Barry Australia Copy Share Image
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to… — Max Barry Answers Copy Share Image
“ 'Two things.' 'Name them. I am instructing you to name them.' 'I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway.… — Max Barry Amusing Copy Share Image
“He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a binary state, a shifting… — Max Barry Doomed Copy Share Image
“ Your site isn't static. It's dynamically generated. Do you know what that means ?" "No." "It means the site looks different… — Max Barry Core beliefs Copy Share Image
“She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s got to be in charge… — Max Barry Bitch Copy Share Image
“He'd never seen it in person before (the main quarry); it was larger than he'd expected. When he'd first taken an interest,… — Max Barry Civilizations Rose Copy Share Image
“Attention words. A single word wasn't enough. Not even for a particular segment. The brain had defenses, filters evolved over millions of… — Max Barry Attention Copy Share Image
I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved… — Max Barry Art Copy Share Image
“I hadn't known this about love: that you did not need to deserve it. I thought there was a set of criteria,… — Max Barry Humor Copy Share Image
“Of course, human tissue completely It's unlikely that scar was composed of the same molecules. Do you think it is really appropriate… — Max Barry Scar Copy Share Image
“This all seemed quaint and amusing, but as the book moved through to the modern day, nothing changed. People still fell to… — Max Barry Books Copy Share Image
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