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The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

Nick Harkaway
People, Shooting, Remember
"Angelmaker". Book by Nick Harkaway, February 2, 2012.

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

Nick Harkaway
Other Cultures, Voice, Car
Nick Harkaway (2014). “Tigerman: A novel”, p.17, Vintage

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

Nick Harkaway
Media, Cities, People
Source: www.theguardian.com

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.

Nick Harkaway
Space, People, Maps
Source: www.theguardian.com

There is a sense that everything should be easy, but easy decisions are the ones we should be scared of because if they're easy then we're probably being sold something. This is why I'm worried about "nudge" - it's pushing people in the direction of what you think they should be doing. Easy decisions are dangerous ones.

Nick Harkaway
Thinking, People, Decision
Source: www.theguardian.com

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 the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

Nick Harkaway
Scary, Stories, Path
Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Nick Harkaway
Flower, Silly, Ninja
Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

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.

Nick Harkaway
Block, Writing, Skills

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