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Quotes from The Man Who Sold The Moon — Cory Doctorow

born 1971 Canada

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Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.

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It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.

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And don’t talk to me about having a positive attitude. The reason all those who’ve died of cancer croaked is because they had cancer, not because they were too gloomy.

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Existence proofs always trump theory. That’s engineering.

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They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.

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He was a pushy, self-righteous prig, but that didn’t mean he was wrong. Necessarily.

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It was nice to think that the key to feeding nine billion people was to measure return on investment by maximizing calories and minimizing misery, instead of minimizing capital investment and maximizing retained earnings to shareholders.

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It’s a bitch when someone reminds you of all the contradictions in your life, I know. Your discomfort doesn’t make what I’m saying any less true, though. Come on, you all know this is true. Late-stage capitalism isn’t reformable. It’s an idea whose time has passed.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

But she was one of those doctors who hadn’t gotten the memo from the American health-care system that says that you should only listen to a patient for three minutes, tops, before writing him a referral and/or a prescription and firing him out the door just as the next patient was being fired in.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cory Doctorow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.