# Quote — William Gibson, Neuromancer

> The two surviving Founders of Zion were…old with the accelerated aging that overtakes men who spend too many years outside the embrace of gravity.
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> “Steppin' Razor," one said, as Molly drifted into the chamber. “Like unto a whippin' stick."
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> “That is a story we have, sister," said the other, “a religion story."
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> “How come you don't talk the patois?" Molly asked.
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> “I came from Los Angeles. Long time ago, up the gravity well and out of Babylon. To lead the Tribes home. Now my brother likens you to Steppin' Razor."
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> Molly extended her right hand and the blades flashed in the smoky air. The other Founder laughed, his head thrown back.
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> “You bring a scourge on Babylon, sister, on its darkest heart."

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [Neuromancer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/neuromancer.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy#Part_Three:_Midnight_in_the_Rue_Jules_Verne) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/neuromancer/the-two-surviving

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> Smith had a visitor, unannounced…A small man, Japanese, enormously polite, who bore all the marks of a vat-grown ninja assassin. Smith sat very still, staring into the calm brown eyes of death across a polished table of Vietnamese rosewood. Gently, almost apologetically, the cloned killer explained that it was his duty to find and return a certain artwork, a mechanism of great beauty, which had been taken from the house of his master.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/neuromancer/smith-had-a-visitor.md)

> "I got a little story for you about them…Haven't ever told anybody this one," the Finn began.
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> The story he told Case and Molly began with another man's story, a man he called Smith. Smith had come to the Finn with a request for help, a fraternal request, one businessman to another.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/neuromancer/i-got-a-little.md)

> He was less than a block from Deane's office when it hit, the sudden cellular awareness that someone was on his ass, and very close. The cultivation of a certain tame paranoia was something Case took for granted.

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