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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
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    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: words
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    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
    tags: cigarette
    1095 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    87 likes

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    Brian W. Aldiss
    “Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.”
    ― Brian W. Aldiss
    tags: science-fiction, space-opera
    23 likes

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    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
    252 likes

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    Gene Wolfe
    “People don't want other people to be people.”
    ― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
    tags: labels, people, selfishness
    143 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: stupidity
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    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
    tags: letters, understanding
    8 likes

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    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
    tags: excel, inferiority, inferiority-complex
    16 likes

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    Gore Vidal
    “Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
    tags: fame, self-promotion
    14 likes

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    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
    tags: fifteen, fifty, happiness
    17 likes

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    Robert Reed
    “Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.”
    ― Robert Reed, Marrow
    tags: perfection
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    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
    tags: freedom, god
    92 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    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
    tags: fate, humor, pessimism
    447 likes

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  • #17
    “Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: life-nature-humor
    91 likes

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    Iain Banks
    “I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
    tags: kindlehighlight
    83 likes

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    Gene Wolfe
    “When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”
    ― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
    tags: gifts, merit, payment
    47 likes

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    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
    tags: humor, scifi
    23474 likes

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    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
    tags: illogical, knowledge-of-world, middle-age
    17 likes

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    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
    1095 likes

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    Gore Vidal
    “No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
    tags: love, self-loving
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    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
    tags: learning
    3 likes

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    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
    tags: eccentricity, extravagance
    45 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: optimism
    1197 likes

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    Robert Reed
    “The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.”
    ― Robert Reed, Marrow
    tags: belong, burden, intelligence
    29 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
    4707 likes

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    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
    174 likes

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  • #30
    Gene Wolfe
    “Time turns our lies into truths.”
    ― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
    tags: lies, time, truth
    15 likes



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