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#1

“Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: anonymity, consequence, identity, importance, inquisitiveness

960 likes

#2

“You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

841 likes

#3

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

tags: ignorance

82 likes

#4

“People don’t change just because you know more about them.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

tags: friendship, life, people, relationship

13 likes

#5

“Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

tags: humor, planning-ahead

2 likes

#6

“When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

254 likes

#7

“Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

57 likes

#8

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12944 likes

#9

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

6683 likes

#10

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life

3615 likes

#11

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

tags: cats, death, life

3632 likes

#12

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

4289 likes

#13

“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

tags: death, humor

1254 likes

#14

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

1196 likes

#15

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: letting-go, tenacity

1128 likes

#16

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor

1035 likes

#17

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

tags: ageing, humor

1048 likes

#18

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: death, gallows-humor, humor, laughing

900 likes

#19

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

tags: humor

695 likes

#20

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: fantasy

583 likes

#21

“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: humor, literary-criticism, school-lessons

524 likes

#22

“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: fantasy, humor, music

212 likes

#23

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

1424 likes

#24

“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

244 likes

#25

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

108 likes

#26

“How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

tags: love

99 likes

#27

“We are most artistically caged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

149 likes

#28

“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

119 likes

#29

“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

114 likes

#30

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

tags: insanity, irony

259 likes

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