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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

William Gibson

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Lightning
Stand
High
Come
Enough
Long

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To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
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People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
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He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
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His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)
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[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
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A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
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I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.
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Cyberspace is everting. It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.
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To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.
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