"Happiness and beauty are the worst things you……" — M. John Harrison
"Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die."
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14 Quotes by M. John Harrison
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- After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you…
- Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then…
- Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the…
- Perception of a state is not the state.
- Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised…
- At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap,…
- I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for…
- SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy…
- Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
- Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
- Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have…
- What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why…
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