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“tegeus-Cromis, sometime soldier and sophisticate, who now dwelt quite alone in a tower by the sea and imagined himself a better poet than swordsman.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Viriconium, the Pastel City; a little cryptic, a little proud, a little mad. Its histories, as forgotten as his own, made of the air a sort of amber, an entrapment; the geometry of its avenues was a wry message from one survivor to another: and its present, like his own, was but an implication of its past - a dream, a prediction, a brief possibility to be endured.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“We waste our lives in half truths and nonsense. We waste them.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Go the window: the street is empty. You may hear running footsteps, or a sigh. In a minute or two the whistles have moved away in the direction of the Tinmarket or the Margarethestrasse. Next day some minor prince is discovered in the gutter with his throat cut, and all you are left with is the impression of secret wars, lethal patience, an intelligent manouevring in the dark.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Here lie I in the shadows of the veinous manna, burrowed into the absolute ABRACADAVER of the earth”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Women are more used to betrayal than men, but take it deeper.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Somewhere out there in the millennial dark night, tall ancient towers howled on a rising wind.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“They live in waking dreams, pursued by a past they do not understand, harried by a birthright which has no meaning to them: taunted by amnesia of the soul.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“All empires gutter, and leave a language their heirs cannot understand.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Each species has its fiction, and that fiction is to all intents and purposes real; and the actual thin substance of the universe becomes more and more debatable”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Out came the high-pitched voice of a poet, auctioning the dull things he had found in the back of his brain.”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“I must always remember that Art is as important as Science, and contain my impatience!" (Emmet Buffo)”
― M. John Harrison, Viriconium

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.”
― Jack Vance, Suldrun's Garden

“Pleasure for him who holds the whip!”
― Jack Vance, Suldrun's Garden

“Some persons are traitors by nature; they take pleasure in treachery.”
― Jack Vance, Suldrun's Garden

“He was Sir Aillas, a prince of Troicinet. I go." His form became tenuous, then disappeared. His voice came as if from far away: "I am gone." ― Fairy King Throbius”
― Jack Vance, Suldrun's Garden