Michael Marshall Smith
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born
May 03, 1965
gender
male
place of birth
Knutsford, Cheshire, The United Kingdom
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genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror
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Straw Men by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 3.79 — 308 ratings — published 2002 14 editions |
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Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 4.27 — 217 ratings — published 1994 14 editions |
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Spares by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 4.05 — 218 ratings — published 1996 17 editions |
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One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 4.08 — 120 ratings — published 1998 10 editions |
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The Upright Man by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 3.54 — 136 ratings — published 2004 7 editions |
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The Intruders by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 3.43 — 129 ratings — published 2007 10 editions |
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Blood of Angels by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 3.71 — 108 ratings — published 2005 10 editions |
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What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 4.10 — 83 ratings — published 1999 5 editions |
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The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 3.41 — 79 ratings — published 2007 8 editions |
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Bad Things by Michael Marshall Smith avg rating 3.14 — 49 ratings — published 2009 5 editions |
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"How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all?
Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.
Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down."
— Michael Marshall Smith
Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.
Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down."
— Michael Marshall Smith
"Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in."
— Michael Marshall Smith
— Michael Marshall Smith
"Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are."
— Michael Marshall Smith
— Michael Marshall Smith
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