Twitter Quotes by Jon Ronson

9 Twitter quotes by Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson’s Twitter feed offers his characteristic curiosity and wit in compact form. Nine snippets provide a quick taste of his investigative eye and storytelling skill.

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“Look! We're saying. "We're normal! This is the average!" We're defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of…

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The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

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Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for…

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In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and…

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My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind…

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Somebody told me, “Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we’re hoping…

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On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone…

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“Soon after Justine Sacco’s shaming, I was talking with a friend, a journalist, who told me he had so many jokes, little…

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“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with…

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Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

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“It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it’s equally possible that he’s…

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“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.”

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My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the…

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Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

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“The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could…

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“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end…

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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in…

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“What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called…

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Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in…

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My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

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“It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you’re sane than it is to convince them you’re crazy. “I”

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It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us…

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