John Shirley Quotes

• I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

  John Shirley

  Writing, Drunk, Drug

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• Me molesta cuando la gente deja que la superstición, el pensamiento mágico, las teorías conspirativas extremas y demás empañen su mente.

  John Shirley

  Pensamiento, Gente, Mente

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• I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

  John Shirley

  Pensar, Gente, Intentar

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• People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

  John Shirley

  People, Naked, Alive

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• Las etiquetas sólo confunden a la gente. La gente más inteligente reconoce a los artistas que trascienden las categorías. Pero siempre intento entretener. Está en mi naturaleza; los escritores nacen para entretener. Si eso significa trabajar ostensiblemente dentro de un género, de acuerdo.

  John Shirley

  Media, Artista, Gente

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• A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

  John Shirley

  Men, Rising, Ladders

  John Shirley (2011). “BioShock: Rapture”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.

  John Shirley

  Rip, Book, Mean

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• I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

  John Shirley

  Writing, Thinking, Social

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• I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

  John Shirley

  Empathy, Way, Opinionated

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• As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

  John Shirley

  Firsts, Cyberpunk, Knows

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• I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

  John Shirley

  Kids, Differences, People

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• I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

  John Shirley

  Differences, Making A Difference, Trying

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• Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

  John Shirley

  Mind, Innocence, States

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• I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

  John Shirley

  Doctors, Drs, Watches

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• I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

  John Shirley

  Men, Thinking, Enough

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