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#1

“And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”
― Jane Austen

tags: amusement, commentary, humor, snark

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#2

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency

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#3

“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: friendship, frodo

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#4

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#5

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence

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#6

“Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate

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#7

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
― Miles Davis

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#8

“Ah, yes, hindsight, always my weapon of choice.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

tags: hindsight, obvious, regret

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#9

“Folklore, myth, you know.”

“That’s just fiction that’s old.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

tags: fiction, folklore-and-mythology, myth

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#10

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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