Nick Sweeney > Nick's Quotes

“It is a terrible moment when you realise you’ll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you’ll never have a superlative experience. You’ll go to a Gala Bingo rather than Vegas; get your own office, but not be a CEO; and get a gravestone, but not in Poet’s Corner. You’ll never sleep with the girls on the TV. And all of this mediocrity was made worse by the fact of its inescapable prevalence.”
― Django Wylie

“It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path.”
― Django Wylie, The Middle

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.”
― Django Wylie, The Middle