Quotes by Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

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The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of his giant mixing bowl. — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another ou — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe. — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Gonzo's father told his son to grieve without reservation or embarrassment until he could grieve solemnly and inwardly, — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?""Yes. They're pridef — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
What will you tell him?""The truth."Fortismer thinks about that."Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It feels, — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within i — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else? — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
This is the gift of focus, or wilful denial, and it is something boys are particularly good at. Girls—at least where I g — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl. — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient. — Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World