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    Neal Stephenson
    “Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
    Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

  • #2
    Neal Stephenson
    “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
    Neal Stephenson

  • #3
    Neal Stephenson
    “I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.”
    Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

  • #4
    Neal Stephenson
    “There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
    music
    movies
    microcode (software)
    high-speed pizza delivery”
    Neal Stephenson

  • #5
    China Miéville
    “Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”
    China Miéville

  • #6
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #7
    Frank Herbert
    “A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken. ”
    Frank Herbert

  • #8
    Frank Herbert
    “If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
    Frank Herbert, The Dune Storybook

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #10
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #11
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #12
    Takehiko Inoue
    “So you want to die honorably? You are being selfish. Each and every person you killed had his own life. Whether that life was blessed or not ... everyone is born into this world ... they grow up ... some people have family ... some are alone in this world ... some have young children ... some are engaged ... some have pets ...some people have high hopes and great dreams ... other have no ambition at all and you ended everything for them Takezo.”
    Takehiko Inoue, Vagabond, Volume 2

  • #13
    Kōbō Abe
    “When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet...When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world...”
    Kobo Abe, The Box Man

  • #14
    Leo Lionni
    “I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.”
    Leo Lionni

  • #15
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

    So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #17
    Adrienne Rich
    “For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #18
    Adrienne Rich
    “I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
    and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
    and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”
    Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems.

  • #19
    Adrienne Rich
    “To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #20
    Adrienne Rich
    “If I cling to circumstances I could feel
    not responsible. Only she who says
    she did not choose, is the loser in the end.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #21
    Adrienne Rich
    “The moment of change is the only poem.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #22
    Adrienne Rich
    “and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us
    which will we claim
    how will we go on living
    how will we touch, what will we know
    what will we say to each other.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #23
    Adrienne Rich
    “Power


    Living in the earth-deposits of our history

    Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
    one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
    cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
    for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.

    Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
    she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
    her body bombarded for years by the element
    she had purified
    It seems she denied to the end
    the source of the cataracts on her eyes
    the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
    till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil

    She died a famous woman denying
    her wounds
    denying
    her wounds came from the same source as her power. ”
    Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

  • #24
    Adrienne Rich
    “in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month
    speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides:

    Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel
    on ones we knew and loved

    Praise to life though its windows blew shut
    on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved

    Praise to life though ones we knew and loved
    loved it badly, too well, and not enough

    Praise to life though it tightened like a knot
    on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us

    Praise to life giving room and reason
    to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable.

    Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #25
    Adrienne Rich
    “War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #26
    Adrienne Rich
    “Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.”
    Adrienne Rich, The Fact of a Door Frame

  • #27
    Scott Lynch
    “I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."

    Everyone in the room stared at him.

    "I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #28
    Scott Lynch
    “That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street."

    "No," said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. "I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress."

    "You can't be serious."

    "In the governor's manor."

    "Of all the -"

    "In the governor's bed."

    "Damned lunatic!"

    "With the governor sleeping next to her."

    The night quiet was broken by the high, distant trill of a whistle, the traditional swarming noise of city watches everywhere. Several other whistles joined in a few moments later.

    "It is possible," said Locke with a sheepish grin, "that I have been slightly too bold.”
    Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

  • #29
    Scott Lynch
    “Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.
    -You're just making that up, Jean.”
    Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

  • #30
    Scott Lynch
    “Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was comfortable, and you dared to move,' those jade eyes said. 'For that you must die.' When it became apparent to the cat that its two or three pounds of mass were insufficient to break Locke's neck with one mighty snap, it put its paws on his shoulders and began sharing its drool-covered nose with his lips. He recoiled.”
    Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies



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