Nick Harkaway Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkaway Famous Quotes & Sayings
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And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.
There was a small, quiet moment, the kind you just have time to notice, which makes you feel sad for no good reason.
I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.
I mean that the escape of knowledge into the realm of wider society irretrievably alters the nature of our lives.
Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.
Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there's a God or not.
The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road.
We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.
Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.
Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.
An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.
I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.
Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.
The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.
I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.
I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.
I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
You must come, Lester," Inoue had said. "You must come! We will cry for this place, but also we will dance the Funky Chicken.
It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.
Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing.
I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.
We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim.
He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.
He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.
We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.
Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.
They seemed to believe that the right mixture of Nike, granola and hard work would turn anyone, anywhere in the world, into a millionaire.
The biggest lie was that the world worked the way it was supposed to, and having seen through it, Matthew Spork was free.
I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.
I thought about my personal version of heaven, which is small and calm and features only one angel, who cannot sing.
Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.
You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you're trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don't, though. I'm me and I'm good at it.
Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.
Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies.
My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.
My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.
That's probably why she has added the two severed heads to the uprights of the throne. They lend her an undeniable air of not screwing around.
Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.
Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.
Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.
He'd never prove it, and if he did there'd be nothing he could do about it. But it would be true, and that was something.
Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!