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Pat Cadigan Quotes (1953-)
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About Pat Cadigan
Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is an American-born science fiction author, whose work is described as part of the cyberpunk movement.
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“Truth and information are not the same thing!”
“Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.’”
“Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.”
“The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.”
“Everybody wants to be somebody but nobody wants to be just anybody.”
“I said, What are you, a federal employee or just a freelance zombie?”
“Old responses live long, die hard, and frequently leave a troublesome corpse.”
“Fusion power we licked; static cling has us on the ropes. It’s a funny world.”
“Technology disgusts me. My senses tell me what I need to know. The rest is noise.”
“Maybe it’s better to be half of something wonderful than a whole nothing at all.”
“If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.”
“Meditation was such a loose term; you can do almost anything mentally and call it meditation.”
“If a dataline is running and there’s no one there to watch it, has anything really happened?”
“And that vulgar gold lamé upholstery giving me a rash. You can dispute taste but you can’t stop it.”
““Is that the way you feel about it?” I asked.
“I’m a lawyer. I deal with the law as it is, not how I feel about it.””
“I’m a lawyer. I deal with the law as it is, not how I feel about it.””
“That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.”
“If you need someone to believe something, make them go for a walk with you. Walking takes up most of the energy they’d use to disbelieve you.”
“Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.”
“The only place to go now is into the context. If you can find it. Between the context and the content, between the mainline and the hardline, falls the shadow.”
“Reaching in, he wrapped the exposed wires around his fingers and ripped them out. The locks released, letting the door fall open a crack.
“That’s what we call a Luddite hack.””
“That’s what we call a Luddite hack.””
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Pat Cadigan on Gossip
“Gossip brings out the creativity in the dullest souls.”
Pat Cadigan on Power
“That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you. Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.”
Pat Cadigan on Truth
“But the fact is, the truth is a very dangerous thing and most people aren’t very careful with it because most of the time, they don’t even recognize it. Consequently, they end up lying when they think they’re being truthful, and spilling the truth when they think they’re covering up.”
About Pat Cadigan
Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is an American-born science fiction author, whose work is described as part of the cyberpunk movement.