Top 100 Warren Ellis Quotes

#1. His quant band was gone, he noticed: he wouldn't be tracking his steps, his blood oxygen, heart rate, local EF field activity, or the five other things it automagically quantified and uploaded and shared. Digitally, he would actually appear dead.

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#2. constitute a horror story wherein the villains of the piece stole power from a stable governance system in order to cast the population of the world into an ongoing lab experiment with no plan or boundary. A dismal science.

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#3. The future is a product, and you only get to vote with your money now,

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#4. He is defining the immediate future as follows: old people huddling in big cities, afraid of the sky.

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#5. I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.

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#6. What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

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#7. Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.
Build an eye.

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#8. Fuck you . . . you fucking body-dysmorphia porn-addict trust-fund-baby compulsive-masturbation motherfucker.

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#9. I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

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#10. It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon.

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#11. I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

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#12. Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.

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#13. Why do I even have to say this? Why do I have to say "Get off the unique and probably alien living plinth that zaps the unwary?" What is wrong with my life that I have to say these things out loud ... ?

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#14. Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

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#15. Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now.

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#16. She's really married?" Tallow said to Bat.
"Yeah. Talia's like this Scandinavian Amazon who can break rocks with her boobs. She could fit Scarly in her armpit. Sometimes I think she likes Scarly just because she was the most portable lesbian available.

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#17. At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.

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#18. We may have been crazed, strange and entirely too eager to find new things to have sex with - but we went out to preserve great chunks of this planet's cultures and we damned well did it with some style

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#19. Every law that curbs my basic human freedom; every lie about the things I care for; every crime committed against me by their politics; that what's makes me get up and hound these fuckers, and I'll do that until the day I die ... or until my brain dries up or something.

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#20. ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT

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#21. I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

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#22. Really?" Mister Sun said. "You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you're suddenly squeamish about a hammer.

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#23. Some asshole scraped the 'I' out of INVESTIGATOR with their keys six months ago. I simply can't be bothered to fix that one. For all the work I get, I may as well be an 'invest gator

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#24. Look at a Segway and tell me it's not the world's shittiest witch's broomstick. We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work.

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#25. Cos a cop asking a guy for a discount on his crack, that's screwed up.
Sign of the goddamn apocalypse is what it is.

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#26. Straight people are so fucking weird.

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#27. People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say."

Someone said, "I fucking told you

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#28. In the long run, you see, none of that matters.
I've seen Heaven, Dowling. And it's not a place where you exercise any power.
In the long run, we are all three-dimensional side-effects of a two-dimensional universe existing in a multidimensional stack.

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#29. The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.

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#30. I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.

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#31. I'm going to shit in your lungs for this.

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#32. - You know what this is?
- Nope
- It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.

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#33. Take gets beamed back to our servers and skimmed by an algorithm reader, which is a piece of software that's maybe as smart as a puppy. It sits up and barks when something really unusual happens in its field of vision.

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#34. When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.

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#35. My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

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#36. Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

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#37. There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal.

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#38. The ECTs are moving the guns in small batches," Bat said. "We're making them take so many photos that one of them asked if she was being trained to shoot porno.

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#39. Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

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#40. He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.

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#41. I wish I still had that photo.

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#42. Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

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#43. I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

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#44. Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.

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#45. I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

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#46. Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

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#47. I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush,

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#48. You wanted a more interesting world ... Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned ... Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you.

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#49. That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

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#50. We are as gods on our little rock in the vast bleak cosmos and it's way past time we started getting good at that instead of just posing on Olympus and photoshopping our zits out. The future is more than an Instagram filter.

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#51. Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

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#52. ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it'd seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun.

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#53. Adam sat back and scoured his recent memory.

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#54. The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"
"You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.

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#55. Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.

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#56. On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

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#57. Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.

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#58. Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year.

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#59. You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

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#60. There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

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#61. This is the mainstream now, Mike. This is how life in America is. Moment by moment, our country has grown sicker. Our borders, Mike, have come to encompass the nine circles of Hell.

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#62. In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.

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#63. I've died before. It was boring, so I stood up.

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#64. Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

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#65. But I am not a monster because I kill. Killing is easy. I am a monster because I accept the hard choices. (Frank Moses)

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#66. Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

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#67. You know what they say; if you're tired of London, you're tired of life.

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#68. The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

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#69. The absolute best thing anyone can do is grab desperately at the throttle. But they don't. Because it's a speeding death kaleidoscope made out of tits. Adam

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#70. I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat.

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#71. For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for hours at a time, as I get lost in the work, but I'd know if it wasn't there. If that makes sense.

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#72. I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

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#73. And someone, somewhere, is saying What the fuck? Why not?

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#74. Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

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#75. If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

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#76. 'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.

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#77. You never get tired of looking at the stars

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#78. It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

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#79. Ain't no Jesus in Snowtown, Detective.

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#80. You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible.

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#81. I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian.

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#82. Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

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#83. She fixed him with a gaze that said that she had looked into the void and that she was really not impressed with it.

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#84. Okay," I said. "Let's do something really goddamn stupid.

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#85. Of course I don't care if you're bleeding! I'm fucking autistic!

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#86. The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.

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#87. There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead?

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#88. A giant capable of circumcising redwoods with his teeth ...

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#89. Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

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#90. You don't learn journalism in school, you learn it by WRITING FUCKING JOURNALISM. You teach yourself to wire up your own brain and gut and reproductive organs into one frightening machine that you aim at the planet like a meat gun.

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#91. Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I'm pretty sure.

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#92. Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.

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#93. I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

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#94. The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

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#95. I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.

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#96. Come on," said the Director. "You are all completely mad people who mess around with technology and weird social theory for fun until your brains shit themselves and you fall over. Any of you could have done this.

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#97. There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly.

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#98. The City went to me in a LANDSLIDE, and you know why? Because all it wants is decent television, a bit of spare change for booze, and a blowjob every Saturday night.

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#99. A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks at a time. -Spider Jerusalem

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#100. Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

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