"People don't want children to know what they……" — Nick Harkaway
"People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch."
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26 Quotes by Nick Harkaway
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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
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Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another…
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
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