“This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”
Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”
Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.”
Henning Mankell
The Dogs of Riga
“She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...”
Virginia Woolf
The Common Reader
“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”
Rob Sheffield
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time