High-Rise (novel) Quotes

“He felt excited in a confused way.”

“Above all, he looked down on them for their good taste.”

“The high-rises seemed almost to challenge the sun itself.”

“'It's almost as if these aren't the people who really live here'.”

“Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.”

“Somehow the high-rise played into the hands of the most petty impulses.”

“The darkness was more comforting, a place where real illusions might flourish.”

“'A low crime-rate, doctor', she told him amiably, 'is clearly a sign of social deprivation.'”

“... [I]n Anne's world it was not only necessary for work to be done, but be seen to be done.”

“'One rule in life,' he murmured to himself. 'If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.'”

“In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.”

“At times he felt that [his fellow tenants] were all waiting for someone to make a serious mistake.”

“Hours on the gymnasium exercycles had equipped them for no more than hours on the gymnasium exercycles.”

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“At times Royal suspected that his neighbours unconsciously hoped that everything would decline even further.”

“... only in the darkness could one become sufficiently obsessive, deliberately play on all one's repressed instincts.”

“Now the new order had emerged, in which life in the high-rise revolved around three obsessions — security, food and sex.”

“Within half an hour almost all of the women were drunk, a yardstick Laing had long used to measure the success of a party.”

“The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.”

“... their territorial instinct, in its psychological and social senses, had weakened to the point where it was ripe for exploitation.”