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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."
"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
"It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill."
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"McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object."
"Yousef had been lighthearted during his questions, but there was something very serious and sad under his smile, and Alan knew what it was. It was the knowledge that there would be no fighting, and there would be no struggle, no stand taken, and that the two of them, because they were not lacking materially, because despite injustices in their countries they were the recipients of preposterous bounty, would likely do nothing. They were content, they had won. The fighting would be done by others, elsewhere."
"He handed Mae a piece of paper, on which he'd written, in crude all capitals, a list of assertions under the headline 'The Rights of Humans in a Digital Age.' Mae scanned it, catching passages: 'We must all have the right to anonymity.' 'Not every human activity can be measured.' 'The ceaseless pursuit of data to quantify the value of any endeavour is catastrophic to true understanding.' 'The barrier between public and private must remain unbreachable.' At the end she found one line, written in red ink: 'We must all have the right to disappear."
"Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?-What weight?-The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?-We are not vessels; we are missiles.-We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.-We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful."
"Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons."
"Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned."
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