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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
― Jack London

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Trouble didn’t just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Forge of Heaven

“I would suggest that you remember she is old because some of her enemies are dead.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Inheritor

“Poisoning us," Bren said, faced with what was a truly attractive service, and with the servants still in the room, "is a process of inconveniently many steps, though conservative of the furniture. One believes we may just have breakfast this morning, nadiin-ji.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Betrayer

“It was a monumental achievement that the serpentine tc'a had once upon a time gotten the knnn to understand the concept of trade: so nowadays knnn simply contacted a station, rushed onto its methane-dock and deposited whatever they liked, grabbed whatever they wanted and left. This was an improvement over their former behavior, in which they simply looted and left.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Kif Strike Back

“But, oh, how precious those things were! To look at the sky, breathe the cold wind, have fingers nipped by chill and skin stung red and heart stirred to life, gods, he had been dead until Tristen arrived and asked him the first vexing question, and posed him the first insoluble puzzle, and marveled at hailstones and mourned over falling leaves. What miracles there were all around....”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Owls

“She said, “Look me right in the eye, and tell me you don’t love me, and I’ll go.”

He stared at her. “Miss, I do not love you.”

“Don’t give me that rot! I’m coming with you, and that’s final!”

“Daphne, you just said that if I said…”

“That doesn’t count! I said look me right in the eye! You were staring at my nose!”
― John C. Wright, The Phoenix Exultant

“And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!
But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop.

-- The Desolation of Tolkien”
― John C. Wright, Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

“The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.”
― John C. Wright, Awake in the Night

“Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.”
― John C. Wright

“Nikolai's a badass Russian. Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Alpha

“Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.”
― David Weber, Out of the Dark

“Confess how you worship and obey Lucifer, the fallen one.”
"You fool. I worship none, and what woman with a brain in her head obeys anyone, let alone a failure?”
― Angela Slatter, Of Sorrow and Such

“The easiest way to do anything is properly.”
― K. J. Parker, The Proof House

“Truth does not become more or less true, whether those who know it are many or few.”
― John C. Wright, The Golden Age

“Peetee say slow and careful, “I’m not afraid of you.” Halber blink. After min, he ask, “Why not?” “I’ve been terrified all week. It’s time to stop.” Don”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“On long trek after Peetee hung caller, I concluded there was nothin’ more I could do but play out game of death. Maybe, somehow, I’d earn us time. Time”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“Don’t, Jar. There’s been enough killing.” “It’ll never be enough! They murdered Dad!”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible.” Father gazed at the Station. “Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is ... the art of the absolute.”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“Just thinking about all that blood." I nearly shudder. "Doesn't it make you a bit squeamish?"
"Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood," she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“If he lost everything else, pride, priapism, and producer credit, Decibel Jones would never, never give up his swagger.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

“This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is,” Decibel said with total delight.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

“How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that’s how.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.”
― A.E. Van Vogt

“No, youngsire, the truth. It’s a whimsy of mine; at table we speak of each other with candor.” “Only at table?” “Isn’t that enough? We spend the rest of the day repairing the damage.”
― David Feintuch, The Still