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    Austin Grossman
    “This morning on planet Earth, there are 1,686 enhanced, gifted, or otherwise superpowered persons. 678 use their powers to fight crime, while 441 use their powers to commit them. 44 are currently confined in Special Containment Facilities for enhanced criminals. Of these last, it is interesting to note that an unusually high proportion have IQs of 300 or more -- eighteen to be exact. Including me. You really have to wonder why we all end up in jail.”
    ― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Sarah Williams
    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
    tags: poetry, science, stars
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    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: change, life, parting, romantics
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    Agatha Christie
    “Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary
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    “The clock of life is wound but once,
    And no man has the power
    To tell just when the hands will stop
    At late or early hour.

    To lose one's wealth is sad indeed,
    To lose one's health is more,
    To lose one's soul is such a loss
    That no man can restore.

    The present only is our own,
    So live, love, toil with a will,
    Place no faith in "Tomorrow,"
    For the Clock may then be still.”
    ― Robert H. Smith
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    Terry Pratchett
    “This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He’d never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
    tags: hippo, humor, memory, metaphor, recollection
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “MIND TELLING US WHAT THE REALITY IS LIKE ROUND HERE?” The pen wrote: +++ On A Scale Of One To Ten—Query +++ “FINE,” Ridcully shouted. +++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Bugrit! Millennium Hand and Shrimp”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: foul-ol-ron
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “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
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation
    tags: lies, rumors, truth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “In the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we're faking them.

    And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it's joy we're looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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    Manuel Puig
    “The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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    ― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    ― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
    tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    ― James Joyce
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