Top 43 Ian McDonald Quotes
#1. ...they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in a prison.
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#2. The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.
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#3. It is always dangerous when your enemy has a sense of humor. Ask Batman.
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#4. The men had to use condoms. You didn't want to get hit by that stuff, flying. I said be kind and I did something worse than flying cum. I threw up all over him. I couldn't stop throwing up. That's not sexy.
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#5. Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of instructing the ribosomes that build the proteins that make up the cells of your body. Ninety-eight per cent of your DNA just sits there doing nothing. Taking up space in the gene.
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#6. There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.
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#7. Coffee is a drink for grownups. No kid ever likes coffee. It's psychoactive. Coffee is the drug of memory.
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#8. The prices are vertiginous. Carlinhos and Wagner take a booth and they talk and dip their wafers of exquisite beef into the sauces but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything. Run
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#9. And how did you find the East?'
'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.
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#11. The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.
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#12. Where there are drones, there will always be police. Where there are police, there will always be violence.
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#14. Her face had always held too much personality to be merely beautiful.
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#15. Handsome boys fighting in not many clothes. Even better than handsome boys marrying.
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#16. Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.
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#18. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.
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#19. Bullets are incompatible with pressurised environments and complex machinery.
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#20. If God truly were inside you, could you bear to look at it? Necdet says.
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#21. He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.
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#22. We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts
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#24. I'm not even the one per cent; I'm the one per cent of the one per cent;
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#25. He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast.
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#26. Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
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#27. It is a fake, but a good fake. Turkey is the land of the masterful fake. But it is far far from that hateful little eighth-floor apartment huddling between the roar of the expressway and the blare of the mosque.
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#28. We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
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#29. The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.
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#30. Nothing tells you that you are not on Earth anymore than exhaling at one price and inhaling at another.
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#31. This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.
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#32. It's another post-EU incongruity. Spas are sissy, indulgent, European. Hamams are authentic and Turkish.
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#33. Is this a Kurdish thing?'
'What?'
'Being deliberately contradictory?
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#34. It's so much better to have sex with someone who's always available, knows what you want and who loves you more deeply than anyone else ever can. Yourself.
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#35. The sense of power, of human ability, was so strong. Many of the men cried. Men are so easily moved.
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#36. Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.
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#37. The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.
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#38. The might and magic of money is not what it allows you to own; it is what it allows you to be. Money is freedom.
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#39. Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
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#40. In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.
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#41. Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.
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#42. He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
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#43. Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.
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