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William Gibson _ Idoru
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.
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William Gibson _ Spook Country
The men in bars, who explain every dark secret of this world, Tito, have you noticed, no secret requires more than three drinks to explain. Who killed the Kennedys? Three drinks. America's real motive in Iraq? Three drinks. The three-drink answers can never contain the truth. The
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William Gibson _ Mona Lisa Overdrive
It worked okay.
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William Gibson _ Spook Country
People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?" "Why?" asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expansive mode of expression on Brown's part. "Because they have better stuff," Brown had replied. "No other reason.
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William Gibson _ Distrust That Particular
I have often raised an eyebrow at hearing him sing, as I push a cart down some Safeway aisle, of the spiritual complexities induced by he admixture of Cuervo Gold, cocaine, and nineteen-year-old girls {in the hands of a man of, shall we say, a certain age}. At which point I look around Frozen Foods and wonder: "Is anyone else hearing this?
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William Gibson _ Neuromancer
There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been reduced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion.
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William Gibson _ The Peripheral
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
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William Gibson _ Neuromancer
Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.
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William Gibson _ Zero History
Heidi's room looked like the aftermath of a not-very-successful airplane bombing. Something that blew open every suitcase in the luggage compartment without bringing the plane down.
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William Gibson _ Mona Lisa Overdrive
But did it wake, Kumiko wondered, when the alley was empty? Did its laser vision scan the silent fall of midnight snow?
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William Gibson _ Zero History
She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand, was the faking of patination, and was actually a way of concealing a lack of quality.
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William Gibson _ Neuromancer
He robbed a bank in Wichita.
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