

“You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.”
― The Circle
― The Circle

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs. No one needs the level of contact you’re purveying. It improves nothing. It’s not nourishing. It’s like snack food. You know how they engineer this food? They scientifically determine precisely how much salt and fat they need to include to keep you eating. You’re not hungry, you don’t need the food, it does nothing for you, but you keep eating these empty calories. This is what you’re pushing. Same thing. Endless empty calories, but the digital-social equivalent. And you calibrate it so it’s equally addictive.”
― The Circle
― The Circle

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“Don't talk to me about hatred if you haven't been married.”
― Purity
― Purity
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