John Lanchester Quotes

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• Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to…
• The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
• The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
• 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…
• The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
• It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning,…
• The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
• You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard…
• We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
• Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
• Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was,…
• It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list…
• The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

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