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Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.
~ William Godwin
Always
Busy
Contemplation
Desire
Generous
Gross
Hard
Hold
Inevitably
Intercourse
Man
Must
Occupation
Recollection
Repose
Seasons
Sort
Spirit
Turmoil
Vulgar
Who
Whom
Woe
Would
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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
~ William Gibson
Assimilate
Been
Career
Continue
Could
Embraced
Fiction
Genre
Given
Head
Influence
Label
Last
List
Mainstream
Manifesto
My Own
Our
Own
Prizes
Safely
Science
Science Fiction
Snappy
Then
Things
Two
Unchanged
Very
Want
Would
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All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.
~ William Gibson
Afforded
All My Life
Class
Constantly
Encountered
Experience
Guess
Hobby
Kid
Life
Little
Little Kid
My Life
Myself
Object
Obsessed
Opportunity
Particular
People
Pursuing
Since
Thing
Were
Who
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All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
~ William Gibson
About
Back
Corner
Cream
Every
Future
Ice
Ice Cream
Imagined
Like
Melting
Moment
Pretend
Really
Store
Way
Which
Why
Write
Writing
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As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
~ William Gibson
Affair
Because
Change
Deal
Deals
Down
Fiction
History
Induced
Invariably
Itself
Kind
Necessarily
Roam
Social
Social Change
Special
Speculative
Technology
The History Of
Up
Up And Down
Way
Which
Who
Writer
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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
~ William Gibson
20th Century
After
Because
Century
Certain
Cool
Cyber
Cyberspace
Early
Electrical
Everything
Gone
I Think
Make
Now
Over
People
Same
Sort
Stopped
Term
Things
Think
Time
Time People
Using
Way
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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
~ William Gibson
About
Between
Call
Cyberspace
Distinction
Grandchildren
I Think
Incomprehensible
Make
Most
Our
Real
Real World
Regard
Simply
The Real World
Thing
Think
Us
Used
Will
World
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
~ William Gibson
Age
Certain
Certain Age
Does
Get
Mortality
Own
Recognize
Suddenly
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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
~ William Gibson
About
Final
First
First Generation
Gadgets
Generation
Get
I Think
Last
New
Sale
Something
Something New
Store
Stuff
Thing
Think
Year
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I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.
~ William Gibson
Anyone
Assume
Because
Been
Certain
Degrees
Entirely
Get
Journalism
Journalists
Never
Novelist
People
Same
Trained
Universities
Very
Way
You
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I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
~ William Gibson
Began
Fiction
Found
Going
Imagining
Lacking
Lazy
Lot
One Of The Things
Science
Science Fiction
Seemed
Shorthand
Specificity
Things
Unless
Visual
Visualize
Write
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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
~ William Gibson
Book
Characters
Demand
Female
Female Characters
Imagine
Setting
Some
Strong
Strong Female
Unless
Without
Writing
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I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.
~ William Gibson
American
Been
Discontent
Fiction
Folk
Had
Mainstream
Manifesto
Me
Often
Propaganda
Science
Science Fiction
Seemed
Some
Sort
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
~ William Gibson
Becomes
Begin
I Write
List
Novel
Shopping
Write
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I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.
~ William Gibson
Actually
Because
Been
Comfortable
Contract
Course
Doing
Down
Fill
Generate
Get
Going
Happen
Never
Order
Out
Reasons
Screenplay
Screenplays
Sit
Story
Storyline
Tell
Them
Then
Writing
You
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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
~ William Gibson
A Good Thing
Good
Good Thing
Life
Live
Living
Much
My Life
Novel
Raymond
Thing
Which
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I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.
~ William Gibson
Corruption
Dysfunction
Healthy
Historical
History
Impulse
Nostalgia
Same
Same Thing
Sense
Thing
Think
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
~ William Gibson
Am
Considerable
Day
Era
Far
Find
Going
I Am
Interesting
Less
More
Mostly
People
Physical
Reproduce
See
Than
Things
Trouble
Try
Virtual
Who
Younger
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I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.
~ William Gibson
Baby
Beach
Because
Born
Cabin
Carolina
Did
Grew
Grow
Grow Up
Had
I Was Born
Like
Only
Parents
Serious
Small
Small Town
Something
South
South Carolina
Summer
Town
Up
Vacation
Very
Virginia
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I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.
~ William Gibson
Attractive
Been
Ceaseless
Closely
Doing
Draw
Facebook
Felt
First
First Thing
Guess
Has-Been
Involved
Least
Mainly
Me
Media
More
Myspace
Never
Novelty
Quest
Random
Research
Resembles
Social
Social Media
Some
Something
Sometimes
The First Thing
Thing
Tiny
Twitter
While
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