"Tim Powers is a brilliant writer."

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William Gibson

#Brilliant Quotes

“Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City”
“Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. â€œNot interested. Loveâ€™s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.”
“You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.”
“It's important to me to be a complete player.”
“Ð¡ops have a tough job and sometimes it takes you being tough.”
“All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.”
“It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.”

Source : Raphael Lemkin (2008). “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe”, p.79, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.”

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