"Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into……" — Nick Harkaway
"Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives."
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26 Quotes by Nick Harkaway
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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way…
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The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
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The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to…
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A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone…
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Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just…
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I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret.…
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Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another…
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People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought…
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.
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ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's…
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for…
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Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended…
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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
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