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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.
— Nick Harkaway
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
— Nick Harkaway
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
I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.
— Nick Harkaway
I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.
— Nick Harkaway
I mean that the escape of knowledge into the realm of wider society irretrievably alters the nature of our lives.
— Nick Harkaway
Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.
— Nick Harkaway
I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts
— Nick Harkaway
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
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
All my characters are me, in one way or another.
— Nick Harkaway
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.
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Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.
— Nick Harkaway
Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.
— Nick Harkaway
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
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
— Nick Harkaway
I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.
— Nick Harkaway
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
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
That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.
— Nick Harkaway
When the time comes to work, I work.
— Nick Harkaway
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
I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.
— Nick Harkaway
Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping?
— Nick Harkaway
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
Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.
— Nick Harkaway
I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.
— Nick Harkaway
My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.
— Nick Harkaway
Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.
— Nick Harkaway
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
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
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
I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
— Nick Harkaway
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
I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid.
— Nick Harkaway
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
Knowledge is not just power - it is control.
— Nick Harkaway
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
We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
— Nick Harkaway
When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim.
— Nick Harkaway
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
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
— Nick Harkaway
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
— Nick Harkaway
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
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
— Nick Harkaway
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
— Nick Harkaway
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
— Nick Harkaway
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
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
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
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
The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
— Nick Harkaway
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
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
Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.
— Nick Harkaway
I thought about my personal version of heaven, which is small and calm and features only one angel, who cannot sing.
— Nick Harkaway
I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.
— Nick Harkaway
I'm really sorry I ate your dog.
— Nick Harkaway
Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.
— Nick Harkaway
Bollocks to should.
— Nick Harkaway
If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
— Nick Harkaway
Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.
— Nick Harkaway
Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies.
— Nick Harkaway
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
— Nick Harkaway
My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.
— Nick Harkaway
Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.
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This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.
— Nick Harkaway
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
Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster.
— Nick Harkaway
Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.
— Nick Harkaway
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
Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.
— Nick Harkaway
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
'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai.
— Nick Harkaway
Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!
— Nick Harkaway
