James MacDonald

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James’s Quotes

“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”
― William Gibson

tags: writers, writing

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“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: fashion, labels, social-commentary, society, trends

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“The street finds its own uses for things.”
― William Gibson

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“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology

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“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
― William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

tags: memory, time

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