William Gibson Quotes
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song.... Not that I could ever write in such an epic way, but it really is a different way to go about writing lyrics...and I find that quite inspiring.
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The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
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I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.
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I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
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It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
