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# Darran Anderson

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Darran Anderson is a writer.

## Quick Facts About Darran Anderson

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## About Darran Anderson

Irish writer (born c. 1980)... \| Darran Anderson is an Irish writer of creative nonfiction, known for his books on cities, architecture, music and memory. He is the author of Imaginary Cities (2015) and the memoir Inventory (2020). Imaginary Cities was named a book of the year by the Financial Times and The Guardian. He was a co-ed

##  Quotes by Darran Anderson

> [“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darran-anderson/we-would-do-well-as-orwell-counselled-to-see-the-traces-of-the/)

Darran Anderson

[Common decency](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/common-decency/)

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> [“Learning, in an age where it was the light to theocratic darkness, was to be feared and reviled because it threatened vested…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darran-anderson/learning-in-an-age-where-it-was-the-light-to-theocratic-darkness-was/)

Darran Anderson

[Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/)

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