Matthew De Abaitua Quotes

#1. It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

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#2. Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

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#3. He was smoking his joint now, and it was having no effect upon him.

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#4. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

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#5. I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

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#6. Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

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#7. A talent for forgetting is necessary to maintain civility.

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#8. Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.

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#9. Selling out had never been a problem before because no one had wanted to buy. Why are we kneecapping ourselves with artistic principles when we are yet to produce any art?

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#10. I'm not afraid of anything and I will not fight.

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#11. If you said to me, "I do not love, I have never loved," then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say "I do not hate, I have never hated," then you sound like half a man.

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#12. Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

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#13. Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.

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