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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/and-don-t-tell-me-the-end-justifies-the-means-because-it-doesn-t-we/)

[Nick Harkaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-harkaway/)

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## More by Nick Harkaway

> [“We were deluged together in the raw, unbalanced Stuff of the universe. Inevitable consequence: My own little reification. I was made flesh, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/we-were-deluged-together-in-the-raw-unbalanced-stuff-of-the-universe/)

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> [“Her eyes are very bright. She loves senses, loves the world. He finds that…admirable, and a bit daunting. I am a mole. I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/her-eyes-are-very-bright-she-loves-senses-loves-the-world-he-finds/)

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> [“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/an-ugly-calm-lay-over-the-streets-like-the-anticipation-of-a-beating/)

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> [If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/if-we-one-day-cease-to-exist-what-will-be-remarkable-is-that-we-were/)

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> [“Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/crotch-biting-menace-i-have-my-mouth-in-close-proximity-to-your/)

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> [“I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/i-can-show-him-how-to-be-the-right-kind-of-stupid/)

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> [“She has to admit privately that she may be mad. Although if so, it is a merciless, clear-sighted sort of madness and not at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/she-has-to-admit-privately-that-she-may-be-mad-although-if-so-it-is-a/)

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> [“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/dressing-i-chose-the-second-shirt-the-one-softened-in-the-mouth-of-a/)

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> [No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/no-the-moral-of-the-story-in-so-far-as-it-has-one-is-that-cannibals/)

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> [“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/kershaw-had-long-ago-realised-apparently-that-dealing-with-brits-was/)

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> [“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/then-he-explained-in-a-whisper-that-the-plan-was-composed-entirely-of/)

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> [“Yes. Edie Banister has gone postal. A very British sort of postal which does not involve shouting, but rather a sudden and total reverse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/yes-edie-banister-has-gone-postal-a-very-british-sort-of-postal-which/)

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> [Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/nowhere-have-i-ever-heard-of-satan-taking-the-form-of-an-avuncular/)

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> [I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/i-have-wrangles-with-facebook-entered-fictitious-trips-because-i-can/)

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> [Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/piracy-is-robbery-with-violence-often-segueing-into-murder-rape-and/)

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