Max Barry Quotes

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• I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so…
• People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
• The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who…
• I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought…
• I will not be what I was made, but what I make.
• My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this…
• That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
• There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
• Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.
• Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is…
• I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one…
• every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
• She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She…

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