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Category: Warren Ellis

You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I’m married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.

date, dead, dinner, gay, lizards

Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his future life collapse in on itself like a dying star. His future life becoming small and dark and dense, its gravity apparently grim and inescapable.Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow spent some cash on a bottle of vodka and drank it at home within an hour.

black-hole, blue-moon, gun-machine, life-experience, life-is-a-long-time, vodka

I can’t solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can’t avoid noticing them.

attention, people, problems, spider-jerusalem

There’s one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it’s one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It’s people that kill every revolution.

life, revolution

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

alienation, capitalism, globalization, marxism, revolution

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory.

memory, noir, noir-style, ptsd, violence

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

assertiveness, hard-work, life-philosophy, success

Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.

change, the-state-of-the-nation

He’d always liked women who’d talk back to him just a little bit. “Girls with balls” were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.

black-humour, hypocrisy, sexism, women

Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

fuckhead, spider-jerusalem, trust

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

danger, people, trump

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

evolution, future, lifestyle, science