Paul McAuley Quotes

#1. We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

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#2. One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

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#3. Everything's a data point.

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#4. A poster by the door to the locker room showed a Jackaroo avatar dressed as Uncle Sam, pointing a white-gloved finger under the caption I Want You for Anal Probing.

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#5. Absolute scientific truth was like the speed of light, a value which could be approached but never reached.

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#6. What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

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#7. One day something will come through that will amaze us all.

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#8. Ugly Chicken says she's nice,' the little girl said. Freddie

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#9. But you need to cultivate patience, youngling. And you need to listen to my words of wisdom, because as far as you are concerned, I am Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi. Okay?

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#10. The past doesn't change, does it?"
"It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

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#11. She said, 'Is that legal?' 'I was trained to use bigger guns than this.' Which didn't exactly answer her question.

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#12. This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.

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#13. I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

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#14. When people go looking for something, they often find something else.

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#15. Pareidolia. They heard whispering voices in the radio pulses of Jupiter or Saturn.

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#16. Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race.

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