Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Nick Harkaway
British novelist and commentator
Nick Harkaway, born Nicholas Cornwell, is a British novelist and commentator. He is known for writing under the name Nick Harkaway, and has 132 quotes on the site. Under that name, he wrote the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon, Titanium Noir, and Karla's Choice, as well as the non-fiction study The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Aidan Truhen.
More from Nick Harkaway (132 quotes) →More quotes by Nick Harkaway
- “In a novel, even if you put a country in the wrong hemisphere, which I've done, I can always claim it was par…”Nick Harkaway
- “The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.”Nick Harkaway
- “Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one…”Nick Harkaway
- “Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how…”Nick Harkaway
More Privacy quotes
- “My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you…”Valerie Plame
- “England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr G…”George Orwell
- “So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; b…”Marquis de Sade
Explore Grief
- “Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and d…”Wilhelm von Humboldt
- “Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconsc…”David Hewson
- “And wilt thou have me fashion into speechThe love I bear thee, finding words enough,And hold the torch out, w…”Elizabeth Barrett Browning