Nick Harkaway Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important - it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not - but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone. The Blind Giant

2. Am I a fraud, then, or a scholar? I am both, of course, as we all are. Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment. Gnomon

3. And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with. Angelmaker

4. Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how they’re obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his eye.Can we be very clear, Polly Cradle murmurs, that I am not your booby sidekick or your Bond girl? That I am an independent supervillain in my own right?Joe swallows. Yes, we can, he says carefully.There will therefore be no more ‘Say hello, Polly’?There will not. Angelmaker