Richard Kadrey Quotes

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Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

Richard Kadrey

Missing You, Memories, Tears

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It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

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Wall, Thinking, World

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Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

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Kindness, Knives, Enemy

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Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains. Once a man does the things you're talking about, he will never be the same, and he can never go back to who he was before. Worst of all, no matter how many enemies you kill, you are never satisfied. There is always one more who deserves it. When it becomes too easy to kill, it never ends.

Richard Kadrey

Revenge, Grief, Men

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If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits.

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Kids, Clothes, Wicked

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Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

Richard Kadrey

Song, Hate, Self

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When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

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Thinking, Fire, House

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Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.

Richard Kadrey

Hurt, Children, Sorry

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I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.

Richard Kadrey

Long, Way, Long Way

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As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy

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Past, Technology, Thinking

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This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it?

Richard Kadrey

Queens, Sex, Thinking

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In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.

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Fall, Men, Odds

Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

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Fear, Skins

Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

Richard Kadrey

Looks, Foolish

Richard Kadrey (2013). “The Sandman Slim Series”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

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Mom, Secret, Looks

Richard Kadrey (2012). “Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, Book 3)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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Don't drink too much." "When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop." "I'll have to get a shorter name." "I'll have to forget how to spell it.

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Glasses, Names, Too Much

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I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

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Ballet, World, Slippers

Richard Kadrey (2012). “Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

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Insanity, Able, Contradiction

Richard Kadrey (2015). “Butcher Bird”, p.240, Booklassic

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Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?

Richard Kadrey

Stars, Zombie, Killers

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In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

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Promise, Matter, Praying

Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.

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Doors, Fire, Puff

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I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.

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Fighting, Dragons, Games

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No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

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Math, Coke, Wonder

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Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

Richard Kadrey

Might, Firsts, First Date

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I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

Richard Kadrey

Fighting, Arena, Hell

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Born: August 27, 1957
Occupation: Novelist
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