52 Quotes by Hal Duncan

Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.

–I’m not like that, he says. I’m not a …Fairy?–Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of you will die.

They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the other – the one marked Matelotage – deals instant love, like the very darts of Eros. And who, I ask ye, who can stand up to love?

–The People’s Independent Republic of Arse, Cock and Yo-ho-bloody-ho, I say. PIRACY!–You are a pirate! –Damn right I am! I’m Flash Jack Carter, the Darling of the Deep, the Blessed of the Briny, Sodomite Scourge of the Seven Seas ...

Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to be so overloaded with meanings it’s just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.