# Distress

- Author: [Greg Egan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-egan/distress

## Quotes

> Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

> Screw every known human culture.

> "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
>
> "No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape."

> "All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him."

> No one grows up. That’s one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don’t want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don’t try to tell me it’s some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It’s not.