D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

• The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Dumb, Problem, Loses

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• Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Real, Wine, Missing

  DBC Pierre (2011). “Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Sky, Dreamer, Looks

  "Vernon God Little". Book by D.B.C. Pierre, Act V. Me ves y sufres, January 20, 2003.

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• And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Skins, Quality, Together

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• If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Defeat, Ethical, Models

  DBC Pierre (2007). “Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Men, Games, Buzzers

  DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.269, Faber & Faber

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• I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  People, Ends

  DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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