Pattern Recognition Quotes

“But, Hubertus," Cayce offers, "what if Dorothea is..."
"Yes?" He leans forward, palms flat on the table.
"A vicious lying cunt?"
Bigend giggles, a deeply alarming sound. "Well," he says, "we are in the business of advertising, after all." He smiles.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“У душ есть ограничение по скорости, они отстают от самолетов и прибывают с задержкой, как потерявшийся багаж.”
― William Gibson, Распознавание образов

“She remembers an eerily young Sean Connery, in that first James Bond film, using fine clear Scottish spit to paste one of his gorgeous black hairs across the gap between the jamb and the door of his hotel room.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“she's learned it's largely a matter of being willing to ask the next question. She's met the very Mexican who first wore his baseball cap backward, asking the next question.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“But perhaps, she thinks, this isn’t a Russian meal. Perhaps it’s a meal in that country without borders that Bigend strives to hail from, a meal in a world where there are no mirrors to find yourself on the other side of, all experience having been reduced, by the spectral hand of marketing, to price-point variations on the same thing.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition