Robert Jackson Bennett Quotes

• Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Forget You

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• Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Hierarchy, Sticks, Madness

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• I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Book, Needs, Action

  Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.429, Broadway Books

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• The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Voice

  Robert Jackson Bennett (2013). “American Elsewhere”, p.359, Hachette UK

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• Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Memories, Might, Voters

  Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.42, Broadway Books

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• The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.92, Broadway Books

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• We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Past, Wish, Our Past

  Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.81, Broadway Books

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• No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Doe, Want, Sometimes

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