Twook00
Sage
Ever read a sentence or passage and think, Wow, that's a remarkable sentence or passage. Could I have written that...? Most of my favorite books have these little gems here and there, and sometimes I wonder if they just pop into the author's head or come about during the editing process.
Like these for example:
Like these for example:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies", said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
― Neil Gaiman
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