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Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life. The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
Nick Harkaway quotes: There was a small, quiet moment, the kind you just have time to notice, which makes you feel sad for no good reason. There was a small, quiet moment, the kind you just have time to notice, which makes you feel sad for no good reason.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf. I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I mean that the escape of knowledge into the realm of wider society irretrievably alters the nature of our lives. I mean that the escape of knowledge into the realm of wider society irretrievably alters the nature of our lives.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient. Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts
Nick Harkaway quotes: Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there's a God or not. Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there's a God or not.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road. The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road.
Nick Harkaway quotes: All my characters are me, in one way or another. All my characters are me, in one way or another.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own. Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other. Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.
Nick Harkaway quotes: An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it. An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery. Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out. I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began. Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means. The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.
Nick Harkaway quotes: That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware. That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.
Nick Harkaway quotes: When the time comes to work, I work. When the time comes to work, I work.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate. Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility. The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried. I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping? Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping?
Nick Harkaway quotes: An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating. An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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 know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work. Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now. I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.
Nick Harkaway quotes: My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble. My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you. Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy. I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
Nick Harkaway quotes: You must come, Lester," Inoue had said. "You must come! We will cry for this place, but also we will dance the Funky Chicken. You must come, Lester," Inoue had said. "You must come! We will cry for this place, but also we will dance the Funky Chicken.
Nick Harkaway quotes: It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is. It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes. I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
Nick Harkaway quotes: She dances in the water. Perhaps that was as good as life got, after all. She dances in the water. Perhaps that was as good as life got, after all.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid. I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing. Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Bones were not strong just because they were the strongest thing a human body had. Bones were not strong just because they were the strongest thing a human body had.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Knowledge is not just power - it is control. Knowledge is not just power - it is control.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe. Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.
Nick Harkaway quotes: We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action. We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
Nick Harkaway quotes: A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant. A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant.
Nick Harkaway quotes: When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim. When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming. Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
Nick Harkaway quotes: It's a Shit Creek tsunami, is what it is. Paddles are no longer the issue. It's a Shit Creek tsunami, is what it is. Paddles are no longer the issue.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats. Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve. Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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'. 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'.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: They seemed to believe that the right mixture of Nike, granola and hard work would turn anyone, anywhere in the world, into a millionaire. They seemed to believe that the right mixture of Nike, granola and hard work would turn anyone, anywhere in the world, into a millionaire.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one. The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The biggest lie was that the world worked the way it was supposed to, and having seen through it, Matthew Spork was free. The biggest lie was that the world worked the way it was supposed to, and having seen through it, Matthew Spork was free.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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'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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player. Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I thought about my personal version of heaven, which is small and calm and features only one angel, who cannot sing. I thought about my personal version of heaven, which is small and calm and features only one angel, who cannot sing.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass. I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.
Nick Harkaway quotes: I'm really sorry I ate your dog. I'm really sorry I ate your dog.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Annabelle growls tunelessly, like a bear hibernating on a bassoonist. Annabelle growls tunelessly, like a bear hibernating on a bassoonist.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method. Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Bollocks to should. Bollocks to should.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
Nick Harkaway quotes: If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all. If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion. Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies. Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies.
Nick Harkaway quotes: The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl. Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.
Nick Harkaway quotes: In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end. In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.
Nick Harkaway quotes: My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler. My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men. Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: This is the world, he thought. And I am in it. This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster. Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead. Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century. Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 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. 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.
Nick Harkaway quotes: 'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai. 'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai.
Nick Harkaway quotes: Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else? Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?
Nick Harkaway quotes: Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth! Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!
Nick Harkaway quotes: I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them. I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.
Nick Harkaway quotes: To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once. To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once.

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