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

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Song, Hate, Self

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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?

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Queens, Sex, Thinking

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

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Hurt, Children, Sorry

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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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The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.

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Soil, Ashes, Existence

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God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord.

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Janitor, Landlord, Universe

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When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

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Rocks, Land, Burning

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

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Fighting, Arena, Hell

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Besides, do you think you would have come if I’d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, ‘Hello, I’m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?

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Tattoo, War, Thinking

Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Richard Kadrey

Fighting, Dragons, Games

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The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

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Sorry, Thinking, Play

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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.

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Might, Firsts, First Date

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I seldom feel trapped by my world. Setting up rules and restrictions is part of the process. It gives your world shape. I always look at these things like haiku: you have to work within certain parameters, but within them, you’re completely free.

Richard Kadrey

Giving, Looks, World

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Born: August 27, 1957
Occupation: Novelist
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