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    Molly Ivins
    “Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.”
    ― Molly Ivins, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
    tags: feminism, humor, men, privilege, women
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    Michael Swanwick
    “Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.”
    ― Michael Swanwick
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Richard Kadrey
    “It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.”
    ― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
    tags: power-of-words, words
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    Marcus Sakey
    “The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.”
    ― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance
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    George MacDonald Fraser
    “There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”
    ― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Mountain of Light
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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    Molly Ivins
    “I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    Molly Ivins
    “When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”
    ― Molly Ivins
    tags: elections, polarization, politics
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    Molly Ivins
    “It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    Molly Ivins
    “It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?

    (Getting Control of the Frontier, Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995)”
    ― Molly Ivins
    tags: big-government, government, regulation, rules, society
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    Molly Ivins
    “Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    Molly Ivins
    “One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    Molly Ivins
    “I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.”
    ― Molly Ivins
    tags: gun-policy, guns, knives, violence
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    Molly Ivins
    “All of which indicates that he's quite a fast learner. When you approve of a politician, this is known as flexibility; when you don't, it's called lack of principal - but in fact, politics requires accommodation.”
    ― Molly Ivans
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    T. Kingfisher
    “Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the common tabby. They share a name, but one is a nice thing to curl up with on a rainy afternoon, and the other is found in the muck at the bottom of polluted rivers and has bits of debris sticking to it.”
    ― T. Kingfisher
    tags: fantasy, funny, goblins, tea
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    T. Kingfisher
    “She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet.”
    ― T. Kingfisher, Toad Words and Other Stories
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “he had nothing to say and he said it”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
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    Tom Robbins
    “There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
    tags: dichotomy, humor, philosophy
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    Tom Wolfe
    “Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
    ― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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    Richard Kadrey
    “Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.”
    ― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
    tags: humor
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    Jack Vance
    “Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.”
    ― Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth
    tags: jack-vance, lodermulch, the-eyes-of-the-overworld
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    Jack Vance
    “Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.”
    ― Jack Vance
    tags: law
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    Jack Vance
    “I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh.”
    ― Jack Vance, Madouc
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    John Brunner
    “There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
    ― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
    tags: fool, foolish, wisdom
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch
    “Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.”
    ― Kristine Kathryn Rusch
    tags: creative-writing, publishing, writer, writing-life
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch
    “For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule.”
    ― Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Discoverability
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
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