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“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.

I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 3

“Even the slightest movement on the Mimic’s part was sure to wake the big scary thing up again. Therefore, the faux-chest focused its entire being on chesting. It would be the Chestiest Chest That Ever Chested!”
― Neven Iliev, Morningwood

“Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Percepliquis

“People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe