Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence — but more generally takes the form of apathy...”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable. This mystical flirtation with the idea of “sin”—this sense that it was possible to go “too far,” and that many people were doing it—was very much with us in Los Angeles in 1968 and 1969.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
“The Chinese virus has completely penetrated the fabric of the Hosaka. There’s nothing in the Hosaka but virus now.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“As Edgar Allan Poe said, in a good plot, “no part can be displaced without ruin to the whole.”3”
― The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
― The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“But I ain’t likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain’t no way human.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
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