Flattering Quotes - Page 12

• Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Technology, Mirrors, People

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Each man kills the thing he loves.

  Anthony Burgess

  Broken Heart, Betrayal, Men

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  Pamela Anderson

  Marine, Animal, Circles

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• I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

  Anne Frank

  Character, Circles, Long

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.209, Anchor

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