Dub Steps Quotes

“If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“The robot learns to love. A single, oily tear leaks down his cheek. We don’t know whether he’s crying or just needs maintenance.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Sometimes the heart demands.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Can a cat be the true love of a human’s life? The one great and enduring emotional connection?”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Control is an advertising concept.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“It’s not about fucking,” she asserted as we clucked nervously over her diagram. “It’s about our species. We need to breed.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“The best philosophy was wrapped up in history. It was, in effect, storytelling from a particular era. The worst was the pure sort. University stuff.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“The writers themselves … they were pitifully out of context. So self-assured, so assuming, so completely wrong. Unable – any of them – to imagine what might be coming.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“The years of us. Our farm and our people. The children, from this distance now almost all completely interchangeable faces and forms, smiling and running and growing so easily into this other thing. So unfettered by time. So shaped by our story, yet somehow so completely untouched by any of it.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“I started writing this to reach out to you, whoever you are, wherever you are.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“The forest would close its arms and that would be that. Joburg would be a mythical memory, a place of the past, of adventure stories for children, of warnings not to get lost.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“All of the books, all of them, stay within the same place, the same realm. I read and read and read and I don’t find anything that even considers what actually happened to us.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Point north and vok voort.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Artists could never, would never, harm anybody. They’re too busy painting. Same with ad drunks. They might be a bit useless at functional tasks, they may break things (small objects, precious objects, door handles, car accessories, and such), but they’re too pissed to get seriously involved in anything.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“I regret, most of all, my shrivelled heart. So focused on the numbers. On the maths of my personal equation. Can a man change his heart? Are there ways to improve the spirit of who you are? Of why you choose?”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps

“Often, one turns to jazz.”
― Andrew Miller, Dub Steps