Author of quotes: Martin Page

My theory is that it is possible and to understand people and to judge one thing doesn't exclude the other. To judge is for us a way of self - defense, because we who are trying to understand? Who understands those who are trying to understand?

In love there are no innocents, only victims.

... buying clothes, he carefully tried to find out its origin, to God forbid not to participate in the exploitation of Asian children in the factories of the company "Nike" and other international giants. Since advertising is an attack on freedom of choice, the usurpation of the rights of the consumer, the invasion of the sphere of the imaginary and the subconscious, Antoine started a notebook in which she recorded the names of all the brands participating in this psychological warfare, and did not buy them ever. In addition, he led the list of companies that are engaged in questionable, from a moral point of view, business, contaminate the environment, investing in the economy of non-democratic countries or carried out mass layoffs, with the growing profits. He didn't buy products with any chemicals, preservatives, colorants, antioxidants and, when finances allowed, prefer to pay more for organic food. Not that he was a staunch ecologist, a pacifist, an internationalist, and just do what I demanded of conscience; his behaviour was dictated by moral ideas rather than political views. In General, Antoine reminiscent of the Holy-era of the consumer society.

... to be a fool rather than to live under the burden of the mind. Fools definitely happier. I do not intend to assimilate fully the attitude of the fools, but only to extract from it some useful components that are dissolved in it such as minerals: cheerfulness, apathy, ability to take nothing to heart, lightness of being, thoughts. Grace!

He found at the dump old TV and put in the middle of the room as a symbol of faith.

Why do I not like? I want to live a normal life, want vulgar bourgeois happiness, want to be a citizen. Ant in the anthill.

There is a Chinese saying, the essence of which boils down roughly to what the fish may not know when she writes. This is quite applicable to the intellectuals who consider themselves smart because they are engaged in mental work. Mason with his hands, but he also has a mind that tells him, "Hey, the wall came the curve, and besides, you put a little cement." There is a constant interaction between the head and hands. Intellectual works only with head, which is nothing does not react, the hands do not tell him: 'Hey, man, pull yourself together! The earth is round!' The intellectual is not happening this internal dialogue, so he imagines that is able to judge everything in the light. He's like a pianist who, on the basis of that masterly hands, decided if it can with equal success to be a boxer, and a neurosurgeon, and artist and card shark.

Honesty and accuracy - interference rhetoric, they are not suitable for debate.

Virgil didn't really understand why the search was up to Clara. May was captivated by the image of a woman who embodied his masochistic fantasies to fail even before the beginning of the novel. Maybe it was something else, yet unknown, in the mystery that required solving.

Wealth is not an end in itself, it is necessary that the admiration and envy of friends, acquaintances, passersby on the street have become a mirror of your success. To get rich - even half the battle, now we need to learn to want what the rich want.

- You crazy, right? Why did you study these... these things...
I was very curious. I also almost finished a thesis on...
Is professional suicide, you learn to be unemployed!

He had long watched them and deep down, admired them, so perfectly they fit into modern life, endowed from birth a precious gift of cretinism versatile, uncomplicated, happy, innocent, and perfect in its completeness, stupidity, pleasant in all respects for them and for others, in the slightest degree not malicious and not a threat to anyone.

- Well, well! Write a scientific paper on alcohol?
- No, I... how would you say... going to sleep. I familiar with the subject.

To me life was easy, I must be an idiot!
- It's crazy!
- So I'm on the right track.