Matthew Barmack

“Jettisoning the requirement to report news in favor of inciting the rage and fear and hatred of your audience before serving them up ads for guns and bunkers is a perfectly functional business model.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“If there was one band that sounded like a white-guy bar, it was Boston.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“So it was that in the middle of middle age, Julian found himself greeting each dawn with pessimism, and each evening reaping the dubious reward of having proved himself correct. Each day he felt less and less valued, more and more irrelevant, a progression that looked inexorable.”
― Chris Pavone, The Doorman: A Novel

“Besides, who were the people who had suddenly started voting Nazi in the last three years? Misguided ignoramuses for the most part, victims of propaganda, a fluctuating mass that would fall apart at the first disappointment.”
― Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A Memoir