Henry Farrell > Quotes

“Jane looked up at him. He was not an ugly man, not mean or hateful-looking. But you couldn’t go by appearances. Some of the nicest-looking people were really very bad.”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“It made you feel good just to know there was somebody somewhere who liked you and thought that what you did was all right. Reaching”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“Sometimes you thought you had a thing—but then part of it—or all of it—always got away. Life itself could not be possessed, really, not even a minute of it.”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“Oh, I wish Daddy could be here right now! You can’t ever lose your talent, he used to tell me. Once you’re born with talent, you have it all your life long. You can lose money, youth and looks, but——You want to see the pictures?” In”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“You are sisters, her father’s voice answered her, the same flesh and blood. And that means that you’ve always got to stick together, no matter what. “Blanche!…”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“I want it, I want it!” Her face grew liverish. “I make the money, so I can have what I want. You can’t stop me!” “Jane,”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“We have a strong tendency to believe our own bullshit. The upside is that if we are far better at detecting bullshit in others than in ourselves, and if we have some minimal good faith commitment to making good criticisms, and entertaining good criticisms when we get them, we can harness our individual cognitive biases through appropriate group processes to produce socially beneficial ends. Our ability to see the motes in others’ eyes while ignoring the beams in our own can be put to good work, when we criticize others and force them to improve their arguments. There are strong benefits to collective institutions that underpin a cognitive division of labor.”
― Henry Farrell

“What have you done?”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“She may be your own sister, honey, your own flesh and blood, but you’ve got to face it, deep down inside she hates you like poison and nothing would please her more than to see you get it right in the neck.”
― Henry Farrell, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

“Dick believed that we all live in a world where ‘spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups - and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.”
― Henry Farrell

“She may be your own sister, honey, your own flesh and blood, but you’ve got to face it, deep down inside she hates you like poison and nothing would please her more than to see you get it right in the neck. The”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“In other words, we live in Philip K. Dick's future, not George Orwell's or Aldous Huxley's ... Dick believed that we all live in a world where 'spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political group - and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.”
― Henry Farrell

“He sat there staring down into the descending darkness, his thoughts wildly mixed and uncertain. For the moment he knew only one thing; from this night forwards he would never be able to think of Jane Hudson or her sister without experiencing all over again the same awful retching sickness that he felt now.”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

“A missing lover, a severed hand, but a body never discovered… An heiress and a bloodied gown…”
― Henry Farrell, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?