"I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was……" — William Gibson
"I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town."
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
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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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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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More Appalachia Quotes
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Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was…
— Edward Kennedy
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Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home…
— Paul Burch
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Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia]…
— Silas House
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For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone,…
— Jeff Goodell
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second…
— Tom Robbins
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Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have…
— Sam Trammell
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