John Barnes: Being

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“It’s a long step down the road to paranoia, but it’s been a proverb for a hundred years that being paranoid does not mean that they aren’t out to get you.”

John Barnes book Mother of Storms

Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 126

“In discussing the existence, or not, of the soul: "I am Caledon. Quite a few of my fellow Caledons still believe there is some essence to a human being, something that makes a person unique." "And you don't." "I don't. I see that people who believe in anything beyond plain physical reality are mainly engaged in making themselves or others miserable."”

John Barnes book Earth Made of Glass

Earth Made of Glass (1998)

“Human beings always say they prefer peace, but it takes a saint to talk us into not assaulting our neighbors.”

John Barnes book Earth Made of Glass

Earth Made of Glass (1998)

“The beautiful earth is being crapped up by an excess of people—lovely as individuals, towns, and cultures, but hideous in such profusion.”

John Barnes book Mother of Storms

Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 473

“Are you up to faking being sincere underneath faking being fake?”

John Barnes book Mother of Storms

Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 406

“Yeats fussed about things falling apart and the center not being able to hold. What really happened was that the center ceased to exist altogether.”

John Barnes book Mother of Storms

Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 54