Richard K. Morgan Quotes
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If I know anything about stack engineers, they'll weld down the lid on your remote stack faster than politicians leaving a war zone.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.
I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them.
Reality is so flexible these days, it's hard to tell who's disconnected from it and who isn't. You might even say it's a pointless distinction.
I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.
The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.
Two of them drifted over to intercept me with the easy calm of big cats that have been fed recently.
Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant.
I walked beside the woman I had killed last week and tried to hold up my end of a conversation about cats. There
The overwhelming impression I got was that if there was a line of least resistance in life, this face had never been along it.
Yes, and had your hotel proved slightly less psychotic, matters would never have got as far out of hand as they have.
Rumor ran in the slum streets of Trelayne like sewage in the gutters, mingled and colorful in its contents, but mostly shit.
The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.
Wealth, in his experience, was not something the people who had it were at all keen to see trickling anywhere.
It's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with.
These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies."
"Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic.
"Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic.
There are no alternatives. You live with what is. And you don't let your ghosts rent room in your head.
The laugh tagged on the end of it is forced as well. I smile fractionally. Edged with old pain, but there's a strange comfort to the way it hurts.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
There were always the stories, of course, the war legends, but who - other than himself, in Jhesh's tavern, increasingly wearily - still told those?
And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.
Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.
Most people don't like to think things through. Too much effort. They'd rather have the edited visceral highlights.
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.
So where the fuck are you, Isaac? I can hear your breathing, I just need to see you so I can stop it.
Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest.
We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?
No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you.
It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly.
You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough.