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The Doubt Factory QUOTES

The Doubt Factory QUOTES

1 " Believing is for Santa Claus, right? It's for Tooth Fairies. It's for your boyfriend when he says he's never met anyone like you and wants to feel you up. That's believing. It's for little kids. Belief. You believe in God? "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

2 " Doctors described Jonah as having poor impulse control, which basically meant that Jonah's entire world was a series of decisions that balanced precariously on the razor's edge of clever vs. stupid. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

3 " Language is how we hack other people's brains. It's how we make them see things the way we want them to see them. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

4 " If you wanted to look at evil, it was just a bunch of suits and ties, a bunch of cubicles and computers, the quiet whirring of commerce. Evil wasn't anything. It was just business as usual. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

5 " Whenever I think I’m cynical, I find out I’m nowhere near cynical enough. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

6 " How did you find truth when everyone was talking about sides? "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

7 " How do you know?" He whispered. "How do you know you can trust?"
"You can't know," she said. "That's what trust is. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

8 " I thought everybody was moneygrubbing. Rich people just do it better. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory

9 " She was fascinated by their hands. Two people, interlocked. Tightening their connection to each other. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Doubt Factory