Jeff Noon Quotes

#1. A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

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#2. Hey!" he shouted. "This is my fucking Lake of Death. I have complete and utter exclusive rights to sailing this lake. Get the fuck off my lake!

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#3. In Bottletown, even our tears flicker like jewels.

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#4. Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

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#5. We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

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#6. The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.

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#7. Form is the host; content is the virus.

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#8. There is a room in England somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. It exists only in the mind, and only in the mind of those that have been there.

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#9. I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.

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#10. Anything can become music if listened to long enough

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