43 quotes found
“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes...”
“On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all...”
“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak th...”
“I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didnt picture a world ...”
“There's stranger sex than sex with strangers.”
“You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say "I want to be famous." You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wr...”
“Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.”
“In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.”
“Im doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as Im concerned, Ill be completely visible. If the painting sells, Ill be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, Im being selfish. It...”
“Zoe did what civilized people do when they freak out: she drank tea. She had walked from her little bungalow to Coffee & Tea. It was always filled with the well-educated, the complicated, the peopl...”
“I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what”
“Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.”
“These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on those pegs. Even the flies, if you thought of it, had settled on other peoples noses. As for the c...”
“I remember arriving by train in a small Swiss town. I had walked up a steep, cobblestoned street that offered a sweeping view of the village below and a lake, which, in the late afternoon light, wa...”
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobodys going to know whether you did it or not.”
“Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle or fail.”
“The wise oyster stays in its shell.”
“Who are you?""No one of consequence.""I must know.""Get used to disappointment.”
“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, the...”
“Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, ...”
