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    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
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    Jim Butcher
    “I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
    tags: dresden, family, friends, friendship
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    Jim Butcher
    “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Vignette
    tags: evil, harry-dresden, stupidity
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    Jim Butcher
    “I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
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    Jim Butcher
    “We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
    tags: bob-the-skull, harry-dresden, humor, insanity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: apathy, boredom, cynism, ennui, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: gods, humour, religion, stupidity
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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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  • #10
    Edith Sitwell
    “I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: life
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    Derek Landy
    “Doors are for people with no imagination.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
    tags: creativity
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    Derek Landy
    “Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.”
    ― Derek Landy
    tags: family, humor
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    Derek Landy
    “We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant”
    ― Derek Landy, Playing with Fire
    tags: humor, skuldugerry-pleasant
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    Derek Landy
    “What is it?' Stephanie whispered.
    'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.'
    She looked at Skulduggery. 'You don't know what it is, do you?'
    'I told you what it is, it's a horrible monster. Now shut up before it comes over here and eats us.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
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    Derek Landy
    “Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
    "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs."
    "Really?"
    "Oh, yes."
    She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?"
    "They just are."
    "In what way?"
    "In a magicky way."
    She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?"
    "Not really.”
    ― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
    tags: conversation, derek-landy, funny, humor, magic, skulduggery-pleasant, stairs, valkyrie
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    Derek Landy
    “I need a weapon,” Valkyrie muttered.
    “You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in
    a variety of martial arts by some of the best fighters in the world,” Skulduggery pointed out. “I’m fairly certain that makes you a weapon.”
    “I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick.”
    “I’ll buy you a stick for Christmas.”
    ― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
    tags: christmas, humour, skulduggery, stick, weapon
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: aspiration, pride, self-improvement
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    Randy Pausch
    “Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism
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  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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  • #23
    Cherie Priest
    “And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
    ― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
    tags: women
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    Cherie Priest
    “It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.”
    ― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
    tags: humor, men-in-uniform
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  • #25
    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: history, humility, philosophy
    1804 likes



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