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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Am I a fraud, then, or a scholar? I am both, of course, as we all are. Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment.”

51. “Am I a fraud, then, or a scholar? I am both, of course, as we all are. Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.”

52. “I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “What is the difference between a person and a book? We can know the truth of neither. Both are encoded things seeking to make themselves clear.”

53. “What is the difference between a person and a book? We can know the truth of neither. Both are encoded things seeking to make themselves clear.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Finance by itself is ruthless, and that ruthlessness is its salvation. The real disasters are only possible when you bring politics into it, because politics is about pretending to care.”

54. “Finance by itself is ruthless, and that ruthlessness is its salvation. The real disasters are only possible when you bring politics into it, because politics is about pretending to care.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Deserts are like nearly bald men having a haircut. The difference is absolutely crucial from within, but to the rest of us it’s still a dusty scrubland with little in the way of plant life.”

55. “Deserts are like nearly bald men having a haircut. The difference is absolutely crucial from within, but to the rest of us it’s still a dusty scrubland with little in the way of plant life.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Lights burn on the upper floors, traders and analysts letting commerce take precedence over family one more time in a desperate attempt to add to a Christmas bonus they won’t have time to spend.”

56. “Lights burn on the upper floors, traders and analysts letting commerce take precedence over family one more time in a desperate attempt to add to a Christmas bonus they won’t have time to spend.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.”

57. “This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.”

58. “Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “I am forever confounded by those who would establish a way of doing things that all others must follow or be deemed unhappy. Sometimes the best things are found in unlikely places.”

59. “I am forever confounded by those who would establish a way of doing things that all others must follow or be deemed unhappy. Sometimes the best things are found in unlikely places.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Are we simulations? What does that question even mean?”

60. “Are we simulations? What does that question even mean?”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “It was his experience that one did poorly by involving oneself in matters of local religion. The world looked one way if you believed, and another if you did not, and that was all there was to it.”

61. “It was his experience that one did poorly by involving oneself in matters of local religion. The world looked one way if you believed, and another if you did not, and that was all there was to it.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “That power may counterfeit the action of justice in most cases, but justice incomplete is not justice, it is the anticipation of wrong.”

62. “That power may counterfeit the action of justice in most cases, but justice incomplete is not justice, it is the anticipation of wrong.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Joe is never sure whether they’re mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.”

63. “Joe is never sure whether they’re mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “His perceptions of copperhood were formed by the dream of England, still. A copper was a bloke in a slightly silly hat who walked the beat, talked to shopkeepers about the price of fish, and sorted out young ruffians. You didn’t attack him. It was like attacking a field of wheat, and anyway, you’d have to answer to his mum.”

64. “His perceptions of copperhood were formed by the dream of England, still. A copper was a bloke in a slightly silly hat who walked the beat, talked to shopkeepers about the price of fish, and sorted out young ruffians. You didn’t attack him. It was like attacking a field of wheat, and anyway, you’d have to answer to his mum.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome.”

65. “It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “It is known, among coppers and criminals alike, that society can be policed only because it consents. When the burden of law or government is too great, or too oppressive, or when economic need or famine breaks the normal course of life, there simply are not – can never be – enough coppers to hold the line.”

66. “It is known, among coppers and criminals alike, that society can be policed only because it consents. When the burden of law or government is too great, or too oppressive, or when economic need or famine breaks the normal course of life, there simply are not – can never be – enough coppers to hold the line.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Joshua Joseph has no great hatred of modern technology – he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine.”

67. “Joshua Joseph has no great hatred of modern technology – he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Never mind, never mind, let’s get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I’ve brought my most alarming teeth!”

68. “Never mind, never mind, let’s get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I’ve brought my most alarming teeth!”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon’s wool, because it goes better with the shoes than the one stitched with baby hair.”

69. “Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon’s wool, because it goes better with the shoes than the one stitched with baby hair.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Free” came to mean not “unchained” but “unpaid” – a conflation that no doubt delighted authoritarians across the globe.”

70. “Free” came to mean not “unchained” but “unpaid” – a conflation that no doubt delighted authoritarians across the globe.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “I know objectively that it happens – I see it happen all the time – and yet death remains incomprehensible: the line where the meaning of things just stops, and the universe carries on.”

71. “I know objectively that it happens – I see it happen all the time – and yet death remains incomprehensible: the line where the meaning of things just stops, and the universe carries on.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “The horse is brown or chestnut or one of those other technical terms horsepeople use to make it clear that they know stuff other people don’t; the freemasonry of the hoof.”

72. “The horse is brown or chestnut or one of those other technical terms horsepeople use to make it clear that they know stuff other people don’t; the freemasonry of the hoof.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “A whooping woman in an evening gown is a woman to delight in.”

73. “A whooping woman in an evening gown is a woman to delight in.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “They have machines for that now,” I say, pointing. “Yes, they do,” he agrees. “But the automation of labour is a conspiracy of de-humanisation. Work is of our nature. Giving even our chores to the machine saves time at the expense of self.”

74. “They have machines for that now,” I say, pointing. “Yes, they do,” he agrees. “But the automation of labour is a conspiracy of de-humanisation. Work is of our nature. Giving even our chores to the machine saves time at the expense of self.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “He does not actually like oyster sauce. It always tastes of oysters.”

75. “He does not actually like oyster sauce. It always tastes of oysters.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “He hates chain stores and fast-food restaurants, mass-produced items and fashionable clothes – any instance of something that is repeated across the world regardless of local context. These things deny the uniqueness of each moment and each person. They function as if we were all printed out of plastic like egg boxes, and they try to make us function the same way. They are the intrusion of perfection into our grubby, smelly, sweaty living place.”

76. “He hates chain stores and fast-food restaurants, mass-produced items and fashionable clothes – any instance of something that is repeated across the world regardless of local context. These things deny the uniqueness of each moment and each person. They function as if we were all printed out of plastic like egg boxes, and they try to make us function the same way. They are the intrusion of perfection into our grubby, smelly, sweaty living place.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “We all carry a multitude of ghosts around with us: impressions of other people, strong or weak, deep from long acquaintance or shallow with brevity. Those ghosts are maps, updated with each encounter, made detailed, judged, liked or disliked. They are, if you ask a philosopher, all we can ever really know of the other people in the world.”

77. “We all carry a multitude of ghosts around with us: impressions of other people, strong or weak, deep from long acquaintance or shallow with brevity. Those ghosts are maps, updated with each encounter, made detailed, judged, liked or disliked. They are, if you ask a philosopher, all we can ever really know of the other people in the world.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “The librarian’s body, lying on the slab, is smaller than I’d expected. If she were a book and not a woman, you’d say she was quite foxed. She’s been read in the bath a few times in her life, and the steam has done her dust jacket no kind of good at all. Many of her pages have been folded down and up again, and you couldn’t call her a recent printing by any means, but even so she’s a handsome edition, bound in dark brown with an elegant design.”

78. “The librarian’s body, lying on the slab, is smaller than I’d expected. If she were a book and not a woman, you’d say she was quite foxed. She’s been read in the bath a few times in her life, and the steam has done her dust jacket no kind of good at all. Many of her pages have been folded down and up again, and you couldn’t call her a recent printing by any means, but even so she’s a handsome edition, bound in dark brown with an elegant design.”

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Nick Harkaway Quote: “Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?” “Yes. They’re prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you mad.”

79. “Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?” “Yes. They’re prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you mad.”

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