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141 " Magic is the cheat codes for the world. Sending a signal to reality's operating system, see? "
― Warren Ellis , Planetary, Volume 2: The Fourth Man
142 " All people are scum. No matter what they look like. "
― Warren Ellis , Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
143 " It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe. "
― Warren Ellis , Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life
144 " Adam sat back and scoured his recent memory. "
― Warren Ellis , Normal: Book 4 (Normal, #4)
145 " It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon. "
― Warren Ellis , Normal: Book 2 (Normal #2)
146 " I don’t want to kill her. But then I don’t want to shit and eat. But in the order to live I have to do it. "
― Warren Ellis , Crooked Little Vein
147 " Supermodernism. the fact that we don't build places just to live in anymore. We build places to go through. To wait in. To be transient [. . .] Supermodern spaces. Places to go through. And now look at this bloody city [Los Angeles]. Two hundred thousand fucking miles of road. Not even a city. A dozen towns stitched together by motorways. "
― Warren Ellis , Desolation Jones: Made in England
148 " Murder increases happiness. "
― Warren Ellis , CUNNING PLANS: Talks By Warren Ellis
149 " Fuck you . . . you fucking body-dysmorphia porn-addict trust-fund-baby compulsive-masturbation motherfucker. "
― Warren Ellis , Black Summer
150 " Okay,” I said. “Let’s do something really goddamn stupid. "
151 " There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly. "
― Warren Ellis , Normal: Book 3 (Normal #3)
152 " We use the language of magic and ghosts and ritual to parse science and technology because science and technology always was, and still is, a process of magic and ghosts and ritual. Same thing. The mistakes we made were in consigning that language to the storage room of things we think we’ve grown out of – in thinking we were somehow better than it -- and in leaving its scattered remains to the illusionists and hucksters who no self-respecting alchemist would ever give house room to. Embrace "
153 " In the world of haunted machines we’re determined to bring on, we need alchemists. People with feet in both worlds. People prepared to consider a world of ghosts and spirits with presence and agency. People like the cunning-folk, equipped to translate the high code of that world for the rest of us dung-stained villagers. People who know their history – which means also knowing their folklore, because that’s where the lessons are. Magic "
154 " Post-modernism, which has probably lasted longer than modernism, is the process of interrogating the aesthetic discourse. Disrupting the narrative. Modernism says that things can be right. Post-modernism says that nothing can be right. So if you ever wonder why nothing new ever seems to happen any more, find a post-modernist and beat the shit out of then. Wyndham "
155 " ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it’d seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun. "
― Warren Ellis , Gun Machine
156 " Lots of cops married nurses, Tallow knew. Nurses understood the life: murderous shiftwork, long stretches of boredom, sudden adrenaline spikes, blood everywhere. Tallow almost smiled as he followed his wincing partner into the apartment building. He made sure the door closed as silently as possible, and only then did he draw his firearm. "
157 " Science fiction is always about the time it’s written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction. I "
158 " We say, ‘I see what you mean,’ it’s the metaphor for clarity. But sometimes I wish people could see the pictures in my head, instead of my having to describe them with words. Words are clumsy. I wish I could communicate in pictures. "
159 " Se mi amaste, oggi vi ammazzereste tutti. "
160 " constitute a horror story wherein the villains of the piece stole power from a stable governance system in order to cast the population of the world into an ongoing lab experiment with no plan or boundary. A dismal science. "