"The Plot Against America" Quotes
A chilling alternate history where Charles Lindbergh becomes the President of the United States and plunges the country into anti-Semitic turmoil.
fiction | 400 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
Fear preserves me from controlling my freedom.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
But civilization, don’t you see, is the result of these constraints: rules and laws that exist so that everyone can have the largest possible number of rights.
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you torture yourself over the future, you still don't know a single goddamned thing.
A man shouldn't try to make his wife the woman who he wants to want him; he should make a good husband out of himself and let her decide what she wants to make of it. You did that for her – maybe you did too much of that for her.
Fear is constant, fear will tell you what to do.
Everything that happens is more or less accidental.
People never are what we wish them to be. The trick is not to let that fact destroy your expectations.
Many things in the world are not fatal.
