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Why do I even have to say this? Why do I have to say "Get off the unique and probably alien living plinth that zaps the unwary?" What is wrong with my life that I have to say these things out loud...?"
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Warren Ellis |
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f15ba0d
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TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.
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Warren Ellis |
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2b75522
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I partnered you with Jim all those years ago because you were complimentary kinds of crazy. You kept each other in check. I need you to not crawl back inside your own skull and watch the world with binoculars from deep cover.
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Warren Ellis |
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df9ff8e
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Tallow walked into Bat and Scarly's office to find Bat slumped on a chair with his head on the workbench, turned away from the door, while Scarly softly sharpened on old straight razor on a worn strop, watching her partner intently. "I don't think he his eyebrows, do you? I mean, they don't serve an immediate or anything," she whispered."
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Warren Ellis |
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c8e0db9
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Where's the elevator?" Mike asked, sheathing his weapon. Tallow felt a little better telling Mike there wasn't an elevator and watching his face. But then Mike picked up the dolly, boxes and all, with one hand, took the kit bag from Sophie with the other, and started jogging up the stairs with"Third floor, right?" "There," said Scarly, "goes a man who has names for all his muscles." "I was just thinking that," Tallow said. "Serious gym rat...
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Warren Ellis |
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e969552
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The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy.
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Warren Ellis |
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297bce9
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Small things bring joy, somedays.
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Warren Ellis |
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de6e8d5
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And someone, somewhere, is saying What the fuck? Why not?
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Warren Ellis |
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9f9565b
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The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!" "You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that."
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Warren Ellis |
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922c15a
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Some asshole scraped the 'I' out of INVESTIGATOR with their keys six months ago. I simply can't be bothered to fix that one. For all the work I get, I may as well be an 'invest gator
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Warren Ellis |
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a706bce
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Fuck me", Bat gasped, "It's like an angel shat ice cream coffee rainbows in my mouth."
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Warren Ellis |
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17b0f33
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Bat stood in the open door and said "I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police Department, you heinous fucking mongoloid, and there is nothing I cannot do."
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bat
humourous
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Warren Ellis |
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944c547
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You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!
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lies
truth
obsolete
spider-jerusalem
news
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Warren Ellis |
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c0dc2c0
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He tried to close a hand around the precious coffee but had to jerk his fingers away, sharply enough that his wrist popped painfully. Tallow wondered if the other end of the coffee machine was slurping water out of a lake in Hell.
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Warren Ellis |
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Gentrification had stopped dead several doors west of my spot overlooking Avenue B. You could actually see the line. That side of the line; Biafran cuisine, sparkling plastic secure window units, women called Imogen and Saffron, men called Josh and Morgan. My side of the line; crack whores, burned-out cars, bullets stuck in door frames, and men called Father-Eating Bastard. It's almost a point of honour to live near a crackhouse, like livin..
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old-new-york
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Warren Ellis |
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e1ef7bd
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I am for that thing in your genome that demands it. I am for that thing which keeps you animals alive. I am, at most, a slice of monkey suspended within the stuff of universal intelligence. You are a monkey in nice clothes. In the harsh environment you refer to as a habitable planet, group behaviors are required to survive long enough to procreate. Since you are stupid monkeys, you have no natural affinity for group altruism. And so you h..
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religion
god
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Warren Ellis |
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d44d460
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Straight people are so fucking weird.
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Warren Ellis |
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533c4ef
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Really?" Mister Sun said. "You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you're suddenly squeamish about a hammer."
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Warren Ellis |
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d68df46
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She's really married?" Tallow said to Bat. "Yeah. Talia's like this Scandinavian Amazon who can break rocks with her boobs. She could fit Scarly in her armpit. Sometimes I think she likes Scarly just because she was the most portable lesbian available."
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Warren Ellis |
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1bbf72a
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I'm going to shit in your lungs for this.
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lungs
spider-jerusalem
shit
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Warren Ellis |
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e1c5803
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There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal.
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Warren Ellis |
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af98c66
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Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen.
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Warren Ellis |
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189f361
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But I am not a monster because I kill. Killing is easy. I am a monster because I accept the hard choices. (Frank Moses)
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Warren Ellis |
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4f3c548
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You never get tired of looking at the stars
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stars
sky
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Warren Ellis |
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b5baf5a
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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.
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dinner
lizards
gay
dead
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Warren Ellis |
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87ec1ca
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The two guys who ran the place, always in Williamsburg hipster uniforms of short-sleeved shirts and neatly trimmed beards that looked stuck on with spirit gum, paid, as ever, no attention to anything but the food and the money. Tallow imagined that every night they counted their money and prided themselves on having not made eye contact with anything human.
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warren ellis |
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68db2e6
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How are we supposed to live in the future when the future just abandons us to the night?
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Warren Ellis |
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4033031
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Tallow was nervously aware that his name was on the worse cold-case dump CSU had ever seen. He was not looking forward to having them look at him and judge by eye exactly how much his organs might be worth on the black market.
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Warren Ellis |
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24d1922
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These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we're not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don't have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.
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knowledge
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Warren Ellis |
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4a309a5
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I stood there alone in the eerily silent streets of Las Vegas and listened to my penis cry.
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Warren Ellis |
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f290b91
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You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible.
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Warren Ellis |
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91ab7c3
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The best gifts are never given, but claimed.
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success
hard-work
life-philosophy
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Warren Ellis |
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1cdaf3b
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Our guy has a property office, John. And I don't mean the Property Office here in One PP. I mean the huge fucking storage facility. A guy in there, with access to thousands of fucking handguns. Even the ones that other people would be keeping an eye on, like Son of Sam's piece, for fuck's sake - a guy in there who'll just boost them and give them to our guy to kill people with. And if the guns are too famous, he'll cut his own slugs out of ..
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Warren Ellis |
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a8732cd
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At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.
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humor
security
drunkenness
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Warren Ellis |
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Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card that read YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRANSHUMAN SECURITY WHORE! STERILIZED INNARDS! ACCEPTS ALL CREDIT CARDS to a large man who had trained attack cancers on his face and possessed seventy-five indentured Komodo Dragons instead of legs. And they had sex. Right in front of me. And six of the Komodo Dragons spat napalm on my new shoes.
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sex
future
dystopia
cyberpunk
science-fiction
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Warren Ellis |
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c8ef537
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Act like you live in the Science Fiction Condition. Act like you can do magic and hold seances for the future and build a brightness control for the sky. Act like you live in a place where you could walk into space if you wanted. Think big. And then make it better.
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Warren Ellis |
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0920042
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I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.
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people
problems
spider-jerusalem
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Warren Ellis |
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b5cd2b0
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Of I don't care if you're bleeding! I'm fucking !
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Warren Ellis |
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c1ea208
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From his vantage, three steps back and to the right, Tallow could see Rosato's eye a good five inches outside Rosato's head and still attached to his eye socket by a mess of red worms. In that single second, Tallow abstractedly realized that in his last moment of life, James Rosato could see his killer from two different angles.
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Warren Ellis |
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4baafaf
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The ECTs are moving the guns in small batches," Bat said. "We're making them take so many photos that one of them asked if she was being trained to shoot porno."
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Warren Ellis |
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30bce66
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Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston. Bat emerged from behind the thing. "Don't judge me," he said. "I got bored."
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Warren Ellis |
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45312ad
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Now," he said, snapping the black blade open, "we have destroyed the teeth, crushed the face, and obliterated the fingerprints. And we have not been caught. We can therefore proceed with the first stage of carcass disposal. Fluid drainage." Amanda placed her hands together so quickly that they almost clapped. "Ooh," she said."
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Warren Ellis |
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cc5582a
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I'd love to be able to tell you a story about the future, but I'd rather tell you a story that counts. I'd rather give you a sense of where you might come from, because you need to know where you've been to know where to go. The future is your story to tell. And maybe you have more options for the future than you thought. Maybe there are different ways to see what comes next. Wear your iron goggles and walk down Dark Lane at night to see wh..
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Warren Ellis |
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876d23a
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What Mogo did was to take ultimate action to improve his quality of life. This is at the root of murder. We kill people to make our own lives better. We kill them because they are obstacles to our desires, because they make us unhappy, because they burden us, or because they keep calling us fucking wizards. Murder increases happiness.
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Warren Ellis |