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#1

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

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#2

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading

1488 likes

#3

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

tags: humor, science-fiction

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#4

“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: inspirational

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#5

“Step up to red alert."
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf”
― Rob Grant; Grant Naylor

tags: humour, red-dwarf, science-fiction, sf

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#6

“Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: science-fact, science-fiction

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#7

“She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

tags: science-fiction

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#8

“[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: authors, mainstream-lit, science-fiction, sf, writers, writing

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#9

“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: science-fiction

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#10

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
― Rutger Hauer, All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners

tags: blade-runner, science-fiction

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#11

“He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

tags: cyberpunk, science-fiction, sf

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#12

“Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.”
― Phil Foglio, Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank

tags: girl-genius-jagermonster

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#13

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#14

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow

1426 likes

#15

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#16

“I will not kiss your fucking flag”
― E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

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