The Secret Life Of The Novel Quotes

“Authoritarians are frustrated authors. Frustrated authors not of books but of their own lives. They are soulless, unimaginative and nihilistic cowards afraid of their own and other peoples freedom.”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“God created reality using language. The Devil is destroying reality by perverting language”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Rage Against The Machine Has Become Rage Against Reality”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“All Afterlives Matter”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“We will eventually run out of natural resources but we have an unlimited supply of stupidity. We need to invent power grids that are fueled by bullshit.”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Stop outsourcing your morality to governments”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Nowhilism: a rejection of the progress made in the past and ignorance of reality in the present”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Sartre said Hell is other people. I'd say Hell is other people's utopia.”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“The politics of redistribution is being replaced by the politics of recognition. How much fun will it be to recognize how poor and atomized we all become!”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“The content of the glass is far more important than whether it is half full or half empty”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“The prophylactic for culturally transmitted diseases is free thinking”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Live fast in the digital! Die young in the analog!”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“At the atomic level of the New Liberalism is a void of wilful ignorance surrounded by a nucleus of hypocrisy.”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“It’s no wonder The Elites promulgate Darwinism. Convince people they are merely animals and you can treat them accordingly.”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“So I shall say it again: that which does not offend us makes us weaker”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Culture is fundamentally structure and we all know what happens to buildings when they don’t have structural integrity”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“Freedom of hearing. The objective ( the thing said ) and the subjective (the thing heard ) if you need "accredited" mediators and censors to police your subjectivity there's really not much hope for you.”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel