"Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus……" — William Gibson
"Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot."
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
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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 Bohemian Quotes
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I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on…
— Brigitte Bardot
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
— Norman Mailer
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
— Muriel Barbery
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I…
— Bent Larsen
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A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'.…
— Kelly Macdonald
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The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could…
— Richard M. Nixon
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But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian…
— Richard M. Nixon
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It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an…
— Brooke Shields
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The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated…
— Sarah Thornton
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I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I…
— Gustav Mahler
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I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever…
— John Gierach
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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my…
— Ernest Gellner
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