"In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Plato Quotes #Book Quotes #Past Quotes

“The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.”
“When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.”
“White folks' greed runs a world in need.”
“If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Arsene Wenger uses the FA Cup to bleed his youngsters”
“I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.”
“For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2009). “Constructions: Making Sense of Things”, Faber & Faber

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