Nick Harkaway Quotes

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• I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
• Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers…
• The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
• The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually,…
• A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away…
• Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.
• I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my…
• Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may…
• People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If…
• Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
• In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.
• ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative…
• The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
• Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
• That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.
• No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going…
• Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.
• Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.
• A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to…
• Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!

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