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‘It’s why they always had to have people around them who smiled a lot. The world, under the Bandahr, was relentlessly happy. Or else.
“Goddammit Donut!”
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
― Lords and Ladies
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
― Lords and Ladies
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“Cats don't drink cocktails,' I said.
'Cats don't shoot lasers from their eyes, either, but here we are, Carl. Mama needs a night off.”
― Carl's Doomsday Scenario
'Cats don't shoot lasers from their eyes, either, but here we are, Carl. Mama needs a night off.”
― Carl's Doomsday Scenario
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