Characteristic Quote by Tana French

“We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not raised to…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be,…

— Thomas Pynchon

Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and…

— Clarence John Laughlin

“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in…

— Haruki Murakami

“Technology, society, media: these are mutable forms, shape-shifting, forever re-purposing themselves. They sit within the wild, weird and wonderful frame of change. But there…

— Simon Pont

“And then we will understand that people cannot be possessions. And because we are both and this should not be, a new concept will…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held…

— Walter Brueggemann

“any era that is dominated by the love of money only, has a rotten core within it and must perish”

— Marie Corelli

“To escape consumerism and conformity, you must turn your back and ignore the mainstream culture. The shackles when then fall away, the machines will…

— David McRaney

“So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on…

— Nikolai Gogol

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa