Fall of Man in Wilmslow Quotes

“Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“I like stupid questions,” Rimmer said. “They allow one to feel intelligent for once.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“Thank you, dear doctor, for curing me of my delusions. But what do you have to offer me instead?”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“That our enthusiasms and passions are an important part of our personality and if you take them away you remove something very fundamental.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“I’m lying. He tasted the words. If it’s true that I’m lying then I’m telling the truth…The”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow: A Novel of Alan Turing

“What is there left once you have lost your manliness?”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“The truth is of course a difficult discipline for us. Not only do we have to discover it. We’ve also got to handle it in the right way. It’s enough to wear you down, isn’t it?”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“You either have a useful contribution to make or you don’t, regardless of whether you’re head of the office or the emperor of China.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“To put it in somewhat drastic terms, Cambridge in the thirties was characterised by two things: a craze for communism and a craze for homosexuality.
“Rubbish!” Farley said.
“Well, you’re bound to have been busy with other things as well, like drunkenness, geometry and Shakespeare.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“Young people are meant to go off the rails politically, aren’t they? And there are certainly far worse things one can do than dream about equality.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“Well, don’t tell me that sexual freedom was Stalin’s lasting contribution to mankind.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“The apple was meant to take away the bitter taste, perhaps,” he said.
“I imagine that Mr. Turing wasn’t exactly looking for a taste experience,” said Corell.
“Man always tries to limit his suffering.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“What had he said about machines?”
Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“Where are you going?” Turing had asked.
“Nowhere.”
“Me too.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow

“You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.”
― David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow