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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#2

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#3

“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

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#4

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

tags: dune

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#5

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

tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan

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#6

“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: battle-training, fighting, gurney-halleck, practice, preparation, training, warrior-training

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#7

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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#8

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: inspirational, motivational

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#9

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: nietzsche

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#10

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#11

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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#12

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
― Michelle Williams

tags: deep-thoughts

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#13

“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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#14

“You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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#16

“Houses, he supposed, like human personalities, contained anomalous corners that refused to fit in with the rest of the general pattern. In her housekeeping habits Nora was like a brutal serial murderer who nevertheless when to Mass every morning and never forgot her mother's birthday.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: books, character-quote, housekeeping, sarcastic-humor

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#16

“It gave him a kind of nervous satisfaction to see his basic grievance against reality confirmed once again by reality itself; nothing hold still. Every time you turned out around, something else had gone rotten, or fallen into despair, or disappeared entirely. In a universe that couldn't be trusted, that could at any moment just as likely as not blow up in your face like a bomb, you had to carve out your own island of order and control, however arbitrary, however illusory, just to keep going.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, life-and-living

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#17

“He was, at least, surviving with dignity, and while he never kidded himself into thinking this was enough, it was certainly better than some of alternative. He had not lost his mind, or his will, or his decency, or, he hoped, his sense of humor. He had simply lost his taste for life, and that, he'd discovered, was not a prerequisite for living.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, loss-quotes

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#18

“Big things were built out of small things; and it was always in the small things first that principles were compromised away until they were compromised away entirely.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, life-lessons, life-philosophy

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#19

“Max's own profession, advertising, was partly at fault; cars were fun, cars were penises, cars were expressions of your life-style and weltanshauung, cars were everything, in fact, except what they were: huge hunk of metal hurtling through space with not regards for humane life, usually commandeered by mental deficiencies.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, cars, sarcastic-humor

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#20

“In conversation he was always ready to champion the wretched of the earth, but in reality he did not like to be in their vicinity - especially on September evening as hot as this one.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, hard-truths, politics, poor, willful-ignorance

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#21

“People liked to believe that tragedies are interchangeable, that they bought you entrance into some kind of brotherhood of grief, where empathy among members was exalted, telepathic, but this is was probably because they needed to believe that tragedy taught you something, that is wasn't a total waste, that the prize you received in lieu of your loss was a new level of understanding. Max didn't view his bereavement as particularly educational, however. All he new now that he hadn't known before was what he should have known in the first place: no one was safe.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, grief, loss, loss-of-love, tragedy

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#22

“Houses, he supposed, like human personalities, contained anomalous corners that refused to fit in with the rest of the general pattern. In her housekeeping habits Nora was like a brutal serial murderer who nevertheless when to Mass every morning and never forgot her mother's birthday.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, character-description, housekeeping, sarcastic-humor

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#23

“Max had no patience with the Judeo-Christian concept of a consistent, judicious, grandfatherly deity. Give him fickle universe rampant with mischievous demons and self-indulgent demigods - all the good evidence pointed to such a model.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, god, sarcasm, universe

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#24

“He learned from advertising that poor people were fiercely brand conscious. They wasted their money on advertised products because they were deathly afraid of wasting their money.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: advertising, book-quotes, life-and-living, poor-people

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#25

“Max's back crept. He was going where he wanted to go. It was odd, but the sensation of realized ambitions was not unlike the sensation of fear; he felt the floor flowing under him like water.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: ambitions, book-quotes, fear

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#26

“And this was a class act indeed, pretending interest in this women's bitchy monologue so that later, as sore as he felt, she would admit him in bed, and all the while secretly despising her. Just what was he doing at this woman's table if that was how he felt?”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, hard-truths, love-hurts, relationship, self-reflection

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#27

“What if he turns out to be a reasonable human being with a reasonable-sized ego?"
"Than I'll dedicate the rest of my life to the service of the Holy Mother and make a pilgrimage to Lourdes." Rosemary laughed. "People with reasonable-sized egos don't become MBAs, Max. They sell beers at the ballpark — or something.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: ambition, books, career, mba

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#28

“It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, liquor, love-hurts, relationships

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#29

“It's about as comfortable as a roller-coaster."
"Oh? Do you fight?"
"We fight, all right."
"Who usually starts it?"
"Me."
"You? I find it hard to believe. What do you fight about?"
Max sighed. "I can't seems to accept her for what she is.”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, love-hurts, relationship

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#30

“Nora wasn't asking him to make her over into someone else; all she wanted was to borrow a few books. Was he such an effete intellectual as to think that an exposure to literature could work some kind of marvelous transformation in her? And what if it could? What if she awoke beside him one morning, having devoured Pride and Prejudice the night before, and was miraculously transfigured into an erudite, civilized woman? Would he still even want her at all?”
― Glenn Savan, White Palace

tags: book-quotes, books, love-hurts, relationships

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