Adrian McKinty quotes

“Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.”
-- Adrian McKinty

Source : "God's Still Dead" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 20, 2007.

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“The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.”
-- Adrian McKinty

Source : Adrian McKinty (2016). “The Sean Duffy Collection”, p.216, Serpent's Tail

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“With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.”
-- Adrian McKinty

Source : Adrian McKinty (2012). “The Cold Cold Ground”, p.106, Profile Books

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“Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.”
-- Adrian McKinty

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“We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.”

“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”

“I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.”

“It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.”

Source : Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.75, InterVarsity Press

“Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.”

“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”

“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”

“Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.”