Nicola Barker Quotes

Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.

Nicola Barker

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• Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.

  

  Nicola Barker
  • Dog
  • Trained
  • Modernity