Golden State
Ben H. Winters
Top 10 Best Quotes
“They are Librarians, and they do not fuck around.”
“...you can talk however calmly and reassuringly you want to, but people are gonna hear your words colored by their own feelings, by their own anxiety or fear or impatience.”
“This is how it ends: you just stop.”
“A question is a cup you hold out to be filled, and there are those who will always fill it to the brim, pour in all the truth they can think of, until it overflows and spills out and spreads across the table. That's not me. Me, I'll give you what's precisely true and no more; I'll answer your question and shut up.”
“When you have been in love with someone in the past, there are a million small trapdoors you can fall through that would take you right back.”
“Madness creeps in very quickly at the edges of such speculation. Not just madness, but a kind of horror, a flickering red field closing in. Just the thought of it.”
“Imagine if everyone did it. Imagine if each person was allowed the luxury of claiming their own truth, building a reality of their own in which they can live. Imagine the danger that would pose, how quickly those lies would metastasize, and the extraordinary threat that would pose to the world.”
“How can we know what we don't know?”
“Because just imagine--just imaging the alternative, the world in which a man encounters some scrap of information, about the murder rate in his neighborhood, or about the presence of troops on the northern border, or what time the bus is supposed to come--any of the small and large pieces of information a person encounters in the course of a day or a lifetime, personal or political, substantive or trivial--and then the next hour or the next day he hears something different, and it is impossible, literally impossible, to know which version is the real one.”
“After all, they'll tell you, everything that happens belongs to the State, and a thought is just an event that happens in your head.”
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Book Keywords:
dystopia, information, librarians, truth, lies, news, fiction, political
