“Incompetence was Kingley's béte noire, not incompetence performed in private but incompetence paraded in public”
― The Black Cloud
― The Black Cloud
“Society today is based in its technology on thinking in terms of numbers. In its social organization, on the other hand, it is based on thinking in terms of words. It's in here that the real clash lies, between the literary mind and the mathematical mind.”
― The Black Cloud
― The Black Cloud
“God did not hand down morality to us. We created God to embody our moral instincts.”
― Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
― Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“Meanwhile the ceaseless requirements of the entertainment industry also threaten to deprive us other forms of critical style and of the means of appreciating them. To be called 'satirical' or 'ironic,' is now to be patronized in a different way. The satirist is the fast-talking cynic, and the ironist merely sarcastic or self-conscious and wised up. When a precious and irreplacable word like 'irony' has become a lazy synonym for 'anomie,' there is scant room for originality.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
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