Rob Payne Quotes

Rob Payne is a Canadian novelist.

Payne is married and lives in Perth, Australia with his wife and daughter.

He is the author of three dramatic-comedy novels for adults, and two science fiction, comedy-adventure novels for young adults. He is also known for his work as a writer and/or editor for such publications as The Globe and Mail, Canadian Fiction, Front and Centre and Quarry.

How to Be a Hero on Earth 5 was nominated for the 2007 White Pine Award. Wikipedia

✵ 1973

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Famous Rob Payne Quotes

“"Fine. Your oatmeal spread in the fridge would go too, but it's already been opened. That stuff was disgusting."
"Jay, thats my facial scrub."”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 17, p. 141

“People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 26, p. 201

“I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 12, p. 103

“Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 7, p. 61

“If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 4, p. 31

“In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 4, p. 33

Rob Payne Quotes about people

“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 16, p. 127

“People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 34, p. 263

“Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 11, p. 90

“This is the factory of the new millennium, the new working class, where industrious drones keep track of other people's wealth as it accumulates. Our collars may be white, but our outlooks are gray and our paycheques ar most definitely lacking in green.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 1, p. 8

“Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 1, p. 10

Rob Payne Quotes

“I'm trustworthy and true and a whole of other positive words that start with T.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 11, p. 89

“There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 19, p. 154

“My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 1, p. 1 (opening line...)

“Its always good to have a theme.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 2, p. 14

“Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my co-workers and make small talk about sports, kids and weather - all things I'm not genuinely interested in.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 1, p. 1

“Being really poor is frightening, and draining, but I got through it.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 17, p. 141

“It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 33, p. 250

“False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 11, p. 91

“If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 24, p. 191

“Being unique is highly over rated.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 29, p. 228

“I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 6, p. 47

“It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.”

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 32, p. 247

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