“No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.”
The House with the Mezzanine (1896)
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Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
Cory Doctorow on the Open Rights Group (Time: 3:25) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Cory_Doctorow_on_the_Open_Rights_Group.webm <br class="br">Context: As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed.
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
Musings of Anita Blake; pp. 383-384
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)
“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 4, Page 88
“Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.”
Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
