A society manufactures the heroes it requires.
Colson WhiteheadMots clés heroes
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.
Colson WhiteheadMots clés zombies
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
Colson WhiteheadMots clés evolution perfection improvement evolutionre
There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.
Colson WhiteheadMots clés hell control redemption
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.
Colson WhiteheadMots clés reality writing writers products betamax formats intellivision trs-80
A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
Colson WhiteheadMots clés people monsters pretense
Don't be afraid: you have a best seller on your hands.
Colson WhiteheadEveryone was fucked up in their own way; as before, it was a mark of one’s individuality.
Colson WhiteheadTheir lives had been an interminable loop of repeated gestures; now their existences were winnowed to this discrete and eternal moment.
Colson WhiteheadAll he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept to him that he couldn't help but be a bit moved by what they were saying. Whatever that was.
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