"I started writing short fiction very briefly, as……" — William Gibson
"I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists."
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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 Briefly Quotes
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one of 198 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
— Michele Bachmann
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Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly…
— Daniel Boone
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
— Samuel Butler
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith…
— H. L. Mencken
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For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
— Ben Vereen
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure…
— Albertus Magnus
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or…
— Nancy Astor
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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what…
— Saint Augustine
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Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of…
— Julia Cameron
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