Quotes by Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway

A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.

Ephemeral

Hot

Pie

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

Democracy

Desire

Secret

A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it’s messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn’t afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.

Love You

Real

Retirement

And don’t tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn’t. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That’s what we live with.

Ends

Life

Mean

ARGH! There’s no such thing [as writer’s block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There’s a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

Block

Skills

Writing

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Bored

Children

Stripes

Google says young people don’t care about privacy, but when asked if they’d let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

Parent

People

Phones

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

Heaven

Hell

Mime

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can’t get the map to get off my page, don’t want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that’s your own.

Maps

People

Space

I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It’s not a wine, it’s a life, right there in the glass.

Dark

Sunshine

Wine

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80s

Answers

Block

Body

Bored

Car

Cat

Children

Cities

Clothes

Courses

Dark

Decision

Democracy

Desire

Discovery

Doubt

Ends

Ephemeral

Errors

Exercise

Flower

Forever

Habit

Heaven

Hell

Hippie

Home

Hot

Ifs

Language

Law

Life

Loss

Love You

Lying

Machines

Magic

Maps

May

Mean

Media

Mime

Mind

Needs

Ninja

One Day

Other Cultures

Parent

Path

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Quotes by Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway

A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.

And don’t tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn’t. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That’s what we live with.

ARGH! There’s no such thing [as writer’s block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There’s a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Google says young people don’t care about privacy, but when asked if they’d let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can’t get the map to get off my page, don’t want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that’s your own.

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