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You smoke?" "Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot? — Richard K. Morgan
If I know anything about stack engineers, they'll weld down the lid on your remote stack faster than politicians leaving a war zone.
— Richard K. Morgan
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
— Richard K. Morgan
If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.
— Richard K. Morgan
There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.
— Richard K. Morgan
I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them.
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Reality is so flexible these days, it's hard to tell who's disconnected from it and who isn't. You might even say it's a pointless distinction.
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I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.
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The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
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Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.
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A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
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I'm Kristin Ortega, Organic Damage Division. Bancroft was my case.
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Running away just makes your arse a bigger target.
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Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.
— Richard K. Morgan
We're more than what we do.
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Religion is funny stuff, and it has unpredictable effects on those who use it.
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Two of them drifted over to intercept me with the easy calm of big cats that have been fed recently.
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Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.
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I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
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Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant.
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I walked beside the woman I had killed last week and tried to hold up my end of a conversation about cats. There
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The overwhelming impression I got was that if there was a line of least resistance in life, this face had never been along it.
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He storms down in savage joy, to meet all the waiting blades and hate.
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Yes, and had your hotel proved slightly less psychotic, matters would never have got as far out of hand as they have.
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Rumor ran in the slum streets of Trelayne like sewage in the gutters, mingled and colorful in its contents, but mostly shit.
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'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.
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The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.
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Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, Ringil said quietly.
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Wealth, in his experience, was not something the people who had it were at all keen to see trickling anywhere.
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What others believe is not my concern, unless they attempt to force it on me.
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When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry.
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Pull on the new flesh like borrowed glovesand burn your fingers once again. — Richard K. Morgan
It's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with.
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These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.""Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic. — Richard K. Morgan
Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.
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There are no alternatives. You live with what is. And you don't let your ghosts rent room in your head.
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The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterward.
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The laugh tagged on the end of it is forced as well. I smile fractionally. Edged with old pain, but there's a strange comfort to the way it hurts.
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I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
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There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic.
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There were always the stories, of course, the war legends, but who - other than himself, in Jhesh's tavern, increasingly wearily - still told those?
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Well, fuck them.Make it personal. — Richard K. Morgan
Every skill must be practised. Every act rehearsed. A blade is only a blade when it cuts.
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And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.
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Culture is like a smog. To livewithin it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated. — Richard K. Morgan
Most people don't like to think things through. Too much effort. They'd rather have the edited visceral highlights.
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I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.
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So where the fuck are you, Isaac? I can hear your breathing, I just need to see you so I can stop it.
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Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest.
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We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?
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The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning ...
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We live in bloodbath times ... and looks like tonight is bath night.
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DISAPPOINTMENT IS A SLOW POISON.
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No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you.
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It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly.
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He'd already made her for Kiriath and was backing off like a poet asked to wash dishes. Ringil
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Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.
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His eyes rolled in their sockets like a panicked horse's.
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Make it personal.
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You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves.
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The tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.
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Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
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Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture.
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People are sheep, Ringil raged. Moronic fucking sheep.
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In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough.
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It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.
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I came quite late to gaming: I didn't start playing until 2002.
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