ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills. Nick Harkaway More Quotes by Nick Harkaway More Quotes From Nick Harkaway Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives. Nick Harkaway loss song years I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass. Nick Harkaway sunshine wine dark A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that. Nick Harkaway real love-you retirement We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action. Nick Harkaway support answers needs And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with. Nick Harkaway ends life mean I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now. Nick Harkaway sorry forever love-you Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. Nick Harkaway errors law writing Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no. Nick Harkaway phones parent people That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware. Nick Harkaway tupperware Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men. Nick Harkaway cat photography lying I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes. Nick Harkaway mime hell heaven There is a sense that everything should be easy, but easy decisions are the ones we should be scared of because if they're easy then we're probably being sold something. This is why I'm worried about "nudge" - it's pushing people in the direction of what you think they should be doing. Easy decisions are dangerous ones. Nick Harkaway decision people thinking The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one. Nick Harkaway shooting remember people The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises. Nick Harkaway machines exercise people The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. Nick Harkaway swings errors tree I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own. Nick Harkaway maps space people It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things. Nick Harkaway philosopher habit language A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that. Nick Harkaway democracy secret desire Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. Nick Harkaway clothes home people We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media. Nick Harkaway media cities people
