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The Tsar of Love and Techno QUOTES

The Tsar of Love and Techno QUOTES

1 " And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

2 " The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn't added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it's peace of a kind he hadn't imagined himself worthy of receiving. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

3 " The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

4 " Wealth announces itself with what's easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

5 " Never forget the first three letters of confidence. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

6 " The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

7 " Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

8 " There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

9 " The calcium in collarbones I have kissed. The iron in the blood flushing those cheeks. We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A shimmer of photons bears the memory across the long dark amnesia. We will be carried too, mysterious particles that we are. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

10 " There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

11 " No one likes a braggart, and to praise your children is to curse them with misfortune, but we admit it, if only in secret, if only to ourselves: We are proud, we are so proud of them. We've given them all we can, but our greatest gift has been to imprint upon them our own ordinariness. They may begrudge us, may think us unambitious and narrow-minded, but someday they will realize that what makes them unremarkable is what kept them alive. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

12 " A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

13 " Our Younger Stalins cabinet stands in the corner. It holds photographs of our vozhd taken ten to twenty years ago. When possible, we substitute a Younger Stalin for current ones. It's essential we convey to the people the youthful vigor of their elder statesman. The longer we do it, the further back in time we must go to find new material. Readers of certain periodicals may worry that he is growing younger with each passing year; by his seventieth birthday he will be a slender-faced adolescent. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

14 " This should be a librarian’s job, of course, but you can’t trust people who read that much. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

15 " You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

16 " Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

17 " You remember how Mom had that embroidered pillow? When she got upset, she’d shout into it and no one would hear her. That’s Facebook. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

18 " I guess our lives are all dreams – as real to us as they are meaningless to everyone else. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

19 " Everything large enough to love eventually disappoints you, then betrays you, and finally, forgets you. But the things small enough to fit into a shoebox, these stay as they were. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno

20 " Hipsterdom's a tightrope strung across the canyon of douche-baggery. He clung by a finger. "

― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno