Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

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Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960) is a British author. He is known for writing science fiction space opera.

Just how naïve could a porn star be?

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

Always demand proof of nirvana before you start following messiahs who’re selling it to you. Those guys don’t exactly have the greatest track record in the universe.

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.

As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.

Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting...

Everybody in the GE used secondaries. It was part of the culture now; socially acceptable. There had been many attempts by the Brussels parliament to legislate against it, and the Tax Bureau certainly...

Fanatics,’ Kandara replied automatically. ‘I’m no longer surprised by what they do, by the misery and suffering they inflict on others. Ideology is a sick soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until...

HR?''Human Resources.''In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.

Hope doesn’t die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.

How they hell does it do that?

I don’t understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate, Tochee said. Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?

I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.

Ian chuckled. You know what the world’s greatest oxymoron is? Happily married, Sid said wearily.

Ian kept his brain in his dick,

I’m an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it’s like watching eight milli...