Sean Devine

“In Disney, the working class has therefore been split into two groups: criminals in the city, and noble savages in the countryside.”
― Ariel Dorfman, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

“Crucially, Davies lived in Prestwich, which often seems to be the only qualification needed to join Britain’s most parochial band.”
― Dave Simpson, The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group

“He knew then what it was that Liz had given him; the thing that he would have to go back and find if ever he got home to England: it was the caring about little things – the faith in ordinary life; the simplicity that made you break up a bit of bread into a paper bag, walk down to the beach and throw it to the gulls.”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

“You realize that people take drugs because it’s the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. You realize that there’s no point in doing anything if nobody’s watching.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor