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Richard K. Morgan

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I’m concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

Children, Book, You

Richard K. Morgan

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

anger, life, zen

Richard K. Morgan

There’s a sameness to streetlife. On every world I’ve ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.

human-behavior, human-behaviour, machines, patterns, planets, political, science-fiction, streetlife, worlds

Richard K. Morgan

The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine.Reality doesn’t offer this assurance, so it’s very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you’re in control.Quellcrest FalconerEthics on the Precipice

science-fiction

Richard K. Morgan

Everyone’s afraid of what they don’t understand,” Ringil said quietly.

fear, understanding

Richard K. Morgan

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough.

Richard K. Morgan

No such thing as time travel, he’d rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you’ve done, and try in the future to do what you’re happy to live with.

life, regret, zen

Richard K. Morgan

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That’s all magic is in the end, you know.

Richard K. Morgan

The only problem they had … was in drawing the fine differences between war-mass murder of people wearing a uniform not your own; justifiable loss-mass murder of your own troops, but with substantial gains; and criminal negligence-mass murder of your own troops, without appreciable benefit.

Richard K. Morgan

It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat’s maze poorly.

humor, psychology

Richard K. Morgan

Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

Richard K. Morgan

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

atheism, philosophy, religion