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Alive Quote by John Shirley

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“People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.”

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“When you serve a beer-cock an ear.”

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I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

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“from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise…

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A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down…

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I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

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As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

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“It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.”

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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