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I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take co...

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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

You never get tired of looking at the stars

The Planetary Omnibus

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR ...

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The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...

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The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his pr...

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In the long run, you see, none of that matters.I've seen Heaven, Dowling. And it's not a place where...

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If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all ...

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Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash tha...

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Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill h...

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To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstr...

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The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HE...

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Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illu...

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That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passenger...

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You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I ...

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He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Wome...

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These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we’re not stupid. We ...

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Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.

Dead Pig Collector

There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when yo...

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Desolation Jones: Made in England

Love is very important, nurse Igor. Love is a gateway emotion. Without it, you cannot fully comprehe...

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Religion lives not in dogma, but utterly within the virtues of love and self-sacrifice. Without thos...

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Frankenstein's Womb

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment bui...

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Our guy has a property office, John. And I don't mean the Property Office here in One PP. I mean the...

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Gun Machine

The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiv...

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Gun Machine

Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there...

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Gun Machine

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how ...

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Transmetropolitan

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! Th...

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Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over...

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You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknow...

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Transmetropolitan

Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticat...

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By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world inste...

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Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and ...

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Transmetropolitan

I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.

Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.

Transmetropolitan

Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.

Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand...

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Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't ...

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Warren Ellis

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Born: 1968-02-16

Died: N/A

Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is a British comic-book writer, novelist, and screenwriter.More