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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“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

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Frank Herbert , Dune

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as raw material from which to create order. That was the Mentat approach, giving no unalterable truths but a remarkable lever for decision-making: orderly assemblage of data in a non-discrete system.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands!”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“A rainbow is a circle you can’t see. Can’t see. Can’t see,”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“This isn’t science,” Lucia said. “It’s medicine. A success rate this high on a new treatment for a novel illness? We’re doing brilliantly. None of us are back to baseline yet, though. If it happens at all, it will take time.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Pain reminds you that you aren’t dead yet.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“All of them do what they think is right, and tell themselves that they’re moral people with the strength to do the necessary things, however terrible they seem at the time. Every atrocity that has been done to us had someone behind it who thought what they did was justified. And here I am. A moral person with the strength to do this. Because it’s justified.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“Make mistakes. Make great mistakes , make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“In my country we smile in bursts, like the sun coming out and illuminating the fields and then retreating again behind a cloud too soon. Smiles are valuable here. But you smiled all the time, as if everything you saw delighted you. You smiled the first time you saw me, even wider than before. You smiled and I was lost, like a small child in a great forest, never to find its way home again.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“Actors get standing ovations. Techies get fiberglass splinters.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“Jasmine’s crush-to-date ratio is in the ninetieth percentile.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“(Dr. Lochley is adamantly opposed to glitter, which, once introduced to a theatre ecosystem, can never truly be eliminated.)”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“Dad being a lapsed Bahá’í, Mom being a lapsed Methodist, and me being a lapsed heterosexual”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“Denise says that theatres and hotels are the two most vulnerable buildings to hauntings.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“Truth be told, my family has been more comfortable with me being queer than they’ve ever been with me being disabled.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“THINKS IN CRAYON”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“Acting is an art, and all art is unpredictable. Sometimes you spend years on something and it never works out; sometimes you’re in the right place at the right time and magic happens. I think that practice makes it easier to reach for that magic, but sometimes it’s just there. Right when you need it.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“I guess that’s what happens when you date from the inflatable backyard dating pool.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“Sometimes it’s nice to turn my brain off and just be with people without constantly worrying if I’m understanding them right, or wondering if I’m missing things.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“I do know, Mom. Bowie’s my best friend. My very platonic best friend. They’re aroace. Not all queer people are dating each other.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists

“Brunch doesn’t cure everything, but it does make most things better.”
― Adib Khorram, The Breakup Lists