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Quotes from Desolation Road — Ian McDonald

born 1960

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Once muddying subjectivities are removed from the issue, the decision becomes clear.

Desolation Road (1988)

These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday.

Desolation Road (1988)

It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather.

Desolation Road (1988)

She had trapped the bird of salvation, sung to it, tamed it and wrung its neck.

Desolation Road (1988)

A chilly piety leaked into the air.

Desolation Road (1988)

Ghosts? Pah. We are the most substantial things in the world, the foundations of the present. We are memories.

Desolation Road (1988)

Profit, Empire, Industry. What was a dead lake, a few poisoned rivers, a few slagged hillsides? Priorities, that was what it was about. Priorities and Progress.

Desolation Road (1988)

The five minutes ticked away on Limaal Mandella’s fob watch and the tension wound tight around Corporation Plaza. Rael Mandella Jr., sweating in his father’s best championship suit, was horrified to realize how few of such brief five-minute periods went to make up a lifetime.

Desolation Road (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ian McDonald (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.