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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. — Neal Stephenson

The same kind of Diefenbachia that Grandmother Waterhouse used to have growing on the counter in her downstairs bathroom. — Neal Stephenson

Now there are many Shaftoes - mostly in Tennessee - but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler. — Neal Stephenson

What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum? — Neal Stephenson

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? — Neal Stephenson

His idea of a satisfying outdoor experience had been to saunter out onto the terrace of a European hotel to smoke cigars and drink brandy. — Neal Stephenson

Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places? — Neal Stephenson

The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. — Neal Stephenson

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. — Neal Stephenson

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it. — Neal Stephenson

In the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince. — Neal Stephenson

Fighting isn't about knowing how," Ty said. "It's about deciding to. — Neal Stephenson

There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you. — Neal Stephenson

The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves. — Neal Stephenson

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy. — Neal Stephenson

Maybe that's how great warriors do it. Carelessly, not wracking their minds with the consequences. — Neal Stephenson

As I walked back over the bridge, I thought that of all the people I'd talked to today, I was probably the least content in my situation. — Neal Stephenson

She knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations. — Neal Stephenson

All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty. — Neal Stephenson

Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again? — Neal Stephenson

Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it? — Neal Stephenson

If no one is barfing, then none of us is likely to die, at least over a time span of weeks. — Neal Stephenson

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson

Boy knows much about the layout of the Mongol camp. The older man squeezed Hans's — Neal Stephenson

It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith. — Marjory Stephenson

Fraa Jad took the garment from me and discovered how the fly worked. "Topology is destiny," he said, and put the drawers on. — Neal Stephenson

Two days later a Scout simply disappeared without explanation, possibly the victim of a micrometeoroid, or even of suicide. — Neal Stephenson

Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why. — Neal Stephenson

Gratitude and obedience. At The Frogs, the relationship between a knight and the people was clearly understood. — Neal Stephenson

It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement. — Neal Stephenson

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ... — Neal Stephenson

Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion ... What's the difference — Neal Stephenson

This Snow Crash thing
is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference? — Neal Stephenson

The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown. — Neal Stephenson

We are all in trouble ... with a bunch of dead people. — Neal Stephenson

Is dangerous, I know, to take ride from strangers. With assault rifle in backpack, not so dangerous. — Neal Stephenson

Added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying — Neal Stephenson

heliocentric orbits, come too close to the sun's heat — Neal Stephenson

These women stared out from the canvases with arched brows, enormous eyes and tiny mouths, seeing much, and saying little. — Neal Stephenson

but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction. — Neal Stephenson

She's in shock. Keep her head low and her legs high, — Neal Stephenson

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face? — Neal Stephenson

Even the God of the New Testament is not as forgiving as the consumer credit system. — Neal Stephenson

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. — Neal Stephenson

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? — Neal Stephenson

If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't." — Sean Stephenson

When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. — Neal Stephenson

Get where?" Yul demanded. — Neal Stephenson

But what little I'd heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable. — Neal Stephenson

And she went on in this vein for a minute or two; she could talk about alloys the way some girls talked about shoes. — Neal Stephenson

Like any librarian in Reality, this daemon can move around without audible footfalls. — Neal Stephenson

Class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships. — Neal Stephenson

She just didn't think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up, — Neal Stephenson

I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again. — Neal Stephenson

There followed one of those comical interludes in which the jihadists were confused about what to do next and fell to bitter recriminations. — Neal Stephenson

Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds. — Sean Stephenson

I just saved your fucking life, Mom ... You could at least offer me an Oreo. — Neal Stephenson

Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses. — Neal Stephenson

None of them have cars, but when they do, they are three-ton hand-built beasts. — Neal Stephenson

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere. — Pamela Stephenson

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry. — Neal Stephenson

I am on an expense account that would blow your mind. — Neal Stephenson

Well, 'vacuum with a sparse dusting of probability waves' is an accurate description of just about everything in the universe, — Neal Stephenson

Gold is the corpse of value... — Neal Stephenson

Plane-change maneuvers are expensive. — Neal Stephenson

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible. — George Stephenson

The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it. — Neal Stephenson

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other. — Sean Stephenson

Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND! — Sean Stephenson

The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex. — Neal Stephenson

At this point in their lives, neither one of them is important enough to kill, kidnap, or interrogate. — Neal Stephenson

encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri, — Neal Stephenson

Swords don't run out of ammo," Hiro shouts. — Neal Stephenson

All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan. — Neal Stephenson

Like a handful of nickels in a batch of bread dough this could be kneaded from place to place but never removed. — Neal Stephenson

After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage, — Neal Stephenson

Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor — Neal Stephenson

So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant? — Neal Stephenson

He is just your type," Uncle Meng said gently. "Please, do try not to fuck him."
"How come it's okay for James Bond? — Neal Stephenson

In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. — Neal Stephenson

Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport. — Neal Stephenson

Or a Moonie festival or something. — Neal Stephenson

every pirate and privateer has lurking within him the soul of an accountant. Though some would say 'tis the other way round. — Neal Stephenson

They made data a controlled substance. — Neal Stephenson

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small. — Randall L. Stephenson

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? — Neal Stephenson

They were a bit like English taverns, which had effigies instead of names, so that people like Jack, who could not read, could know them. — Neal Stephenson

Any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint. — Neal Stephenson

The terminator - not the robotic assassin of moviedom, but the line between night and day through which our planet incessantly rotates. — Neal Stephenson

We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies. — Neal Stephenson

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. — Pamela Stephenson

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us. — Neal Stephenson

As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet. — Neal Stephenson

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them. — Neal Stephenson

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time. — Pamela Stephenson

Their openness would probably be career suicide in the atmosphere of Byzantine court-eunuch intrigue that is public life in the United States today. — Neal Stephenson

No linear indexing system is adequate to express the multi-dimensionality of knowledge," Dr. Waterhouse reminds him. — Neal Stephenson

The ability to make judgments, to believe things, is the entire point of having a culture. I — Neal Stephenson

It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere. — Neal Stephenson

Penetrates your iris, tenderest of sphincters, — Neal Stephenson