Christopher Brown > Quotes

“It was sitting there under a gift-shop bust of Socrates, the inventor of mansplaining.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“Or to really care what time it was, in an America where the idea of the future was a form of nostalgia rarely discussed outside of corner bars and neighborhood marijuana dispensaries.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“Taking people away from the land where their families have lived for generations turns out to be politically destabilizing. Americans kind of perfected that model. They just never considered the possibility that it would happen to them, in no small part because of how they had abused that land.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“Male academics, Donny later read in one of the memos that cleared the interrogation enhancements, were the easiest subjects to get to rat out their friends. The theories for why that was varied.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“When it was backlit like that, but there was still enough light that you could see the mustang vines growing up the sides and poking out through the windows, the modernist concrete blocks of the old JCPenney store looked every bit like a Mayan ruin.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State

“Railroad rights-of-way are weird zones that you can find almost anywhere in the American Landscape. Our urban spaces have worked to overwrite them in favor of motor vehicles in the era since World War II; often you can see the traces of tracks from old streetcar lines or intercity routes peeking through the asphalt of a public street. Sometimes the remains persist as actual ruins.”
― Christopher Brown

“In a proper utopia, they would not let any lawyers in.”
― Christopher Brown, Failed State