I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. - Max Barry
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
- Max Barry
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special. - Max Barry
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. - Max Barry
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. - Max Barry
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.
Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as … - Max Barry
Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as …
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. - Max Barry
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed. - Max Barry
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering … - Max Barry
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering …
The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and h… - Max Barry
The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and h…
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