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A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb
if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend. — John Shirley

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry. — John Shirley

So you see, a man's history when other folks tell it is a pitiful confusion. — John Shirley

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated. — John Shirley

Raging against the dying of the light - used in The Book of Peach — Dylan Thomas

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind. — John Shirley

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley

The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details. — John Shirley

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. — John Shirley

When you serve a beer-cock an ear. — John Shirley

I grabbed Lexi's tousled head and kissed her hair. She smelt like John-Paul Gaultier and blood. — Shirley Marr

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken. — Seth Godin

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. — Libba Bray

Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers. — John Shirley

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. — John Shirley

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference. — John Shirley

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it. — John Shirley

If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb — John Shirley

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill. — John Shirley

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. — John Bright

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images. — John Shirley

It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further. — John Shirley

He had know guys all his life who gave him that feeling. Even as a kid. People who were always lying, even when they didn't have to. — John Shirley

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive. — John Shirley

It's time to admit that Chapman, who's still only 27, is simply playing a different game than everyone else. — Baseball Prospectus

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion. — John Shirley

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care. — John Shirley

No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan — John Shirley