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Top 20 M. John Harrison Quotes (2025 Update)

M. John Harrison Quote: “Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

1. “Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.”

2. “Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “At Birkin Grif’s left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.”

3. “At Birkin Grif’s left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Everyone loves a mysterious country.”

4. “Everyone loves a mysterious country.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.”

5. “Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Outside, a dog sprawls among the empty tables, its body rocking with the evening heat. Someone has given it a hamburger which first it guards, then, eventually, eats. It’s some kind of winter dog, a malamute perhaps, a dog of marvellous subtle greys and whites. Also of transparent intelligence, and less transparent motive. The beauty of an animal like this appears to fix it in our expectations. But while its beauty says one thing, its heart may say another.”

6. “Outside, a dog sprawls among the empty tables, its body rocking with the evening heat. Someone has given it a hamburger which first it guards, then, eventually, eats. It’s some kind of winter dog, a malamute perhaps, a dog of marvellous subtle greys and whites. Also of transparent intelligence, and less transparent motive. The beauty of an animal like this appears to fix it in our expectations. But while its beauty says one thing, its heart may say another.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, ‘Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

7. “The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, ‘Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Perception of a state is not the state.”

8. “Perception of a state is not the state.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.”

9. “Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “I think it’s undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes.”

10. “I think it’s undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.”

11. “Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of a baby seemed to merge seamlessly for a moment with the gull’s repetitive wail, as if they were one species. One species, Falkender thought, raucous and scavenging; one species calling out in pain. To be human is to be mixed and miscegenated like this. To be lost.”

12. “A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of a baby seemed to merge seamlessly for a moment with the gull’s repetitive wail, as if they were one species. One species, Falkender thought, raucous and scavenging; one species calling out in pain. To be human is to be mixed and miscegenated like this. To be lost.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.”

13. “He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Before I came to the city I cut off my hair. It was the first of many fatally symbolic gestures.”

14. “Before I came to the city I cut off my hair. It was the first of many fatally symbolic gestures.”

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M. John Harrison Quote: “Two men deep in conversation could be seen disappearing along the opposite pavement towards Mortlake, their shadows cast huge and filmily onto the brewery walls by the kind of late-night city light that, while failing to relieve the darkness in any way, seems to pour in from every direction at once. Otherwise Wharf Terrace presented itself with only minute differences from his usual point of view. He had expected more.”

15. “Two men deep in conversation could be seen disappearing along the opposite pavement towards Mortlake, their shadows cast huge and filmily onto the brewery walls by the kind of late-night city light that, while failing to relieve the darkness in any way, seems to pour in from every direction at once. Otherwise Wharf Terrace presented itself with only minute differences from his usual point of view. He had expected more.”

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M. John Harrison Quote: “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.”

16. “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

M. John Harrison Quote: “He was, and always had been, the repository of more fears than hopes.”

17. “He was, and always had been, the repository of more fears than hopes.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “I would never have to fake my own death, he found himself thinking. I’ve all but vanished already. Part of him welcomed that. Another part, larger but distributed so thinly across his personality that it seemed invisible, panicked soundlessly on a twenty-four-hour schedule.”

18. “I would never have to fake my own death, he found himself thinking. I’ve all but vanished already. Part of him welcomed that. Another part, larger but distributed so thinly across his personality that it seemed invisible, panicked soundlessly on a twenty-four-hour schedule.”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “You took your time,’ she complained. He stared at her. ‘You didn’t want me here. You sent me a letter.’ She laughed until she coughed. ‘I never did!’ she said, in the tone of a younger woman who learns only now of some bravura socio-sexual faux pas achieved with the aid of alcohol a week, a month or a year before. It was one of her most effective impersonations. For a moment she seemed full of life. ‘I never did!”

19. “You took your time,’ she complained. He stared at her. ‘You didn’t want me here. You sent me a letter.’ She laughed until she coughed. ‘I never did!’ she said, in the tone of a younger woman who learns only now of some bravura socio-sexual faux pas achieved with the aid of alcohol a week, a month or a year before. It was one of her most effective impersonations. For a moment she seemed full of life. ‘I never did!”

— M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison Quote: “Adstreams floated everywhere, their unbearable lightness of being – their simple promise – catching you up: until the crown of butterflies round your head morphed into a crown of thorns and you found you had surrendered your intimate data to some twink-farmer forty blocks away on Pierpoint Street.”

20. “Adstreams floated everywhere, their unbearable lightness of being – their simple promise – catching you up: until the crown of butterflies round your head morphed into a crown of thorns and you found you had surrendered your intimate data to some twink-farmer forty blocks away on Pierpoint Street.”

— M. John Harrison

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