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“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“Although some graduating classes will have a “handful of celebrities” who move on to the national stage, he pointed out that most would find themselves “building or strengthening your communities. Please love that destiny, if it turns out to be yours—for communities are all that’s substantial about the world.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new
government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, even
after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their
descendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions

“She started it,” Briec stated before holding his “perfect” daughter out to Talaith and announcing, “She
looks to need nourishment. Unleash your breasts for her.”
― G.A. Aiken, Last Dragon Standing

“But there simply was no grey area for him. There was only black, white, and annoying.”
― G.A. Aiken, Last Dragon Standing

“Annwyl?” Ragnar repeated, suddenly remembering that Keita had said the same name before they’d
burst out of the woods. “This is Annwyl?” Ragnar looked the woman over, from her absurdly large feet
to the top of her unkempt head. “This?”
This human who had more muscles than seemed necessary for any royal and watched him and his kin
with what he could only term as the mad eyes of a diseased animal.”
― G.A. Aiken, Last Dragon Standing

“A spy novel?” Dagmar asked. “You two are talking about a spy novel?”

Annwyl threw her hands up in the air. “Not just a spy novel!”

“It’s much more than that,” Ragnar argued, and when Dagmar gawked at him in disgust, he added, “I can’t read deep, meaningful, thought-provoking philosophy all the time.”

“Exactly. Sometimes you have to read about a completely amoral hero whoring and killing his way across an unnamed land in the name of the queen that he’ll always love—”

“—but never have.” Then both Ragnar and Annwyl sighed a little.”
― G.A. Aiken, Last Dragon Standing

“You with your deep philosophical ramblings."

"You like my deep philosophical ramblings. "

"Not when they interfere with my ridiculous rages. It's extremely hard to flounce away with any dignity when you're so busy rationalizing.”
― G.A. Aiken, Last Dragon Standing

“Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

“for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

“Eccentricity is not the synonym for elegance.”
― Guy LAROCHE

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince