Reid

“It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“The thing that you love with a violent passion always kills you in the end.”
― Guy de Maupassant, A Night in Paris

“And as for him, it would be enough to make her understand that this was the smile she had seen the other evening near the building site and that it hadn't been interrupted because of any willingness on his part not to allow it to appear, but that in reality it had never ceased flowing between them, an invisible spring, from the very first.”
― Marguerite Duras, Des journées entières dans les arbres

“To believe that market competition curbs the excesses of big, powerful corporations demands a leap of faith that history does not support. It's a peculiar form of market fundamentalism that I can no longer embrace.”
― Siva Vaidhyanathan, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy