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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #2
    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

  • #5
    Brian W. Aldiss
    “Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.”
    Brian W. Aldiss

  • #6
    Susanna Clarke
    “There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #7
    Gene Wolfe
    “People don't want other people to be people.”
    Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #9
    Gene Wolfe
    “We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.”
    Gene Wolfe, Sword & Citadel

  • #10
    T.H. White
    “It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #11
    Gore Vidal
    “Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.”
    Gore Vidal, Julian

  • #12
    Alfred Bester
    “If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.”
    Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

  • #13
    Robert Reed
    “Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.”
    Robert Reed, Marrow

  • #14
    John Fowles
    “There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”
    John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #16
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
    P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

  • #17
    “Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.”
    Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

  • #18
    Iain Banks
    “I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
    Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

  • #19
    Gene Wolfe
    “When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”
    Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #21
    T.H. White
    “There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #22
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #23
    Gore Vidal
    “No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.”
    Gore Vidal, Julian

  • #24
    John H. Lienhard
    “If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.”
    John H. Lienhard, The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

  • #25
    Alfred Bester
    “The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”
    Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Robert Reed
    “The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.”
    Robert Reed, Marrow

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #29
    John Fowles
    “We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
    John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

  • #30
    Gene Wolfe
    “Time turns our lies into truths.”
    Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw



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