Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by D.B.C. Pierre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian writer D.B.C. Pierre.
Last updated on April 17, 2025.
D.B.C. Pierre

Peter Warren Finlay, also known as DBC Pierre, is an Australian author who wrote the novel Vernon God Little.

If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb. — © D.B.C. Pierre
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
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