"Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small,……" — William Gibson
"Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others"
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
William Gibson has 125 quotes on this site.
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think…
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into…
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Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and…
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He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and…
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More Conventionally Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
— Mayim Bialik
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I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome,…
— Seth Green
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I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE CONVENTIONALLY ROMANTIC YOU'VE GOT TO GO ALL THE WAY: A BEAUTIFUL DINNER SOMEWHERE…
— Tom Hiddleston
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What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to…
— Grover Furr
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I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going…
— Bat for Lashes
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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up…
— Gautama Buddha
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I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the…
— Warren Haynes
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
— John Maynard Keynes
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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was…
— Alexander McQueen
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You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
— Terry Southern
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As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced…
— Bruce H. Lipton
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The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings…
— Jared Diamond
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