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We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.
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I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.
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Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
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His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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