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    Robert E. Howard
    “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
    ― Robert E. Howard
    tags: humor, life, politics, society
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    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
    ― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    tags: abraham-lincoln, vampires, war
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    Frank Herbert
    “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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    Frank Herbert
    “Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: fear, self-knowledge
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    Ray Bradbury
    “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: thinking
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: farenheit-451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: life, living
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    Ray Bradbury
    “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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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
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    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: british, humor, science-fiction, social-commentary, thumb, towel
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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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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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    Douglas Adams
    “The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: 42
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    Douglas Adams
    “One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humans, humor, interesting
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    Lee Child
    “I know I'm smarter than an armadillo”
    ― Lee Child, Echo Burning
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    Robert Ludlum
    “I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
    tags: amnesia
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    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: duke-leto-atreides
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    Frank Herbert
    “A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: animals, dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Fear is the mind-killer.”
    ― Frank Herbert , Dune
    tags: 1965, fear, litany, panic, serenity
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Orson Scott Card
    “You're a monster.
    Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
    No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: humor
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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    Orson Scott Card
    “We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: ender, happiness
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: alcohol, drinking, sobriety
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    Larry Correia
    “Fish and Wildlife wants to fine us for killing a giant mutant Tennessee River catfish because it was endangered. Sure it had just crawled up on land and eaten some teenagers, but it was still an endangered species.”
    ― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International
    87 likes



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