"I don't much live my life as if……" — William Gibson
"I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing."
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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 Chandler Quotes
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one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic…
— Andy Cohen
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My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends'. And Goran Ivanisevic.
— Miranda Hart
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
— James Ellroy
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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and…
— Charles Frazier
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If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would…
— Dale Dauten
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We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that…
— Andy Hertzfeld
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No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal…
— David Halberstam
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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the…
— Ross Macdonald
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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang.…
— Frank Miller
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about…
— Megan Abbott
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There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my…
— Matthew Perry
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Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
— Utah Phillips
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