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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.”
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― Count Zero
― Count Zero
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
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