William Gibson Short Quotes

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He found work.
He found a girl who called herself Michael.

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Don' 'stand you, mon, but we mus' move by Jah Love, each one

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We no longer grow the full beef of bohemia, It's all veal now.

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I'd buy him a drink, but I don't know if I'd loan him any money.

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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

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Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

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The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

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Somewhere, very close, the laugh that wasn't laughter.
He never saw Molly again.

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The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

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Honey, Jammer said, you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.

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Your saving grace, Danielle, is that you make the rest of your kind look vaguely human.

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You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up.

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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

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"Hate," Case said. "Who do I hate? You tell me." "Who do you love?" the Finn's voice asked.

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His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

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They sat around accessing media all day and talking about it, and nothing ever seemed to get done.

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Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

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As broker, I'm usually very careful as to sources.
You buy only from those who steal the best. Got it.

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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

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