Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Dean Cavanagh

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a novelist Dean Cavanagh.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Dean Cavanagh is a screenwriter, novelist and Playwright born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In 1990, at the height of the acid house scene, he founded the club culture magazine Herb Garden and a band with Enzo Annecchini. His electronic music outfit, Glamorous Hooligan, was picked up by Warner Bros. offshoot Arthrob, and in 1996, they released an album, Naked City Soundtrax. Glamorous Hooligan's first album Wasted Youth Club Classics was released by indie label Mass of Black in 1994. Cavanagh has stated that his proudest moment was getting Robert Anton Wilson to guest on one of the tracks. As a musician, he featured on John Peel's Sounds of the Suburbs TV show, in the late 1990s. As a clubland promoter, he ran underground house music, and techno, clubs in Bradford, called Tolerance, before moving on to Leeds, where he promoted the Soundclash club bringing in DJs such as Andrew Weatherall, Alex Patterson, Adrian Sherwood and J. Saul Kane.

Novelist | Born: 1966

Source: Wikipedia

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.

Dean Cavanagh

Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.

Dean Cavanagh

The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative

Dean Cavanagh

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Dean Cavanagh

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

Dean Cavanagh

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Dean Cavanagh

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

Dean Cavanagh

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

Dean Cavanagh

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

Dean Cavanagh

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

Dean Cavanagh

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

Dean Cavanagh

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

Dean Cavanagh

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Dean Cavanagh

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

Dean Cavanagh

Nihilism, there's really nothing to it.

Dean Cavanagh

All creativity is a work in progress.

Dean Cavanagh

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

Dean Cavanagh

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

Dean Cavanagh

Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

Dean Cavanagh

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

Dean Cavanagh

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion

Dean Cavanagh

Life is simply a vacation from the infinite

Dean Cavanagh

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

Dean Cavanagh

The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor.

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When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time

Dean Cavanagh

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

Dean Cavanagh