Quotes by Richard Kadrey

About Richard Kadrey:

Richard Kadrey is a San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer.
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If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says.

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Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

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When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls’ pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent.

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He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

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If fucking up is power, I should be the Hulk by now.

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I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?" "It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike.

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Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

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This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one,...

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It's more like how some people can't help but bring out the not necessarily righteous parts of your personality. Like how you meet someone and instantly know they're a full-time professional victim, and no matter how hard you try, something takes ove...

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Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

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The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your tee...

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Don't drink too much." "When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop." "I'll have to get a shorter name." "I'll have to forget how to spell it.

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If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

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They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.

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If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.

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Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

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The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing...

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There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced steroid lattes and pump iron...

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It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough...

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Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Kadrey
  • DescriptionSan Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
  • Born1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist