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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    David Gemmell
    “By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest
    heroism”
    ― David Gemmell, Legend
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
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    Andy Weir
    “I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe."
    "You poked it with a stick?"
    "No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
    ― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
    tags: humor, science, semantics
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
    tags: darkness, happiness, omelas, unknown, walk-away
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    David Gemmell
    “What will you do now?'

    I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.'

    No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?'

    Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.”
    ― David Gemmell, Legend
    tags: humor
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lord-of-the-rings, sam-gamgee
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    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Stephen Fry
    “Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
    tags: funny, greek, humor, humour, language, myth, mythology, myths, pronounciation
    149 likes

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    Paul Kalanithi
    “You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
    ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
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    Bryan Cranston
    “Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.”
    ― Bryan Cranston, A Life in Parts
    tags: parenthood, parenting
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    Evan Winter
    “I'd rather live with a thing done poorly than do nothing and always wonder how things could have been.”
    ― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons
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    Evan Winter
    “I’m not asking you to win. That’s not solely in your control,” Aren said. “I’m asking that you fight to win. Anything less is the acceptance of loss and an admission that you deserve it.”
    ― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons
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    Evan Winter
    “The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve.”
    ― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons
    tags: challenge, difficulty, effort, hardship, perseverance, price, struggle, work
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    Martha Wells
    “Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency. I’d rather climb back into Hostile One’s mouth.”
    ― Martha Wells, All Systems Red
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    Martha Wells
    “I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”
    ― Martha Wells, All Systems Red
    tags: entertainment, introvert, tv
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    Martha Wells
    “You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I’m a pessimist.”
    ― Martha Wells, All Systems Red
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    Martha Wells
    “I remember every word ever said to me." That was a lie. Who would want that? Most of it I delete from permanent memory.”
    ― Martha Wells, All Systems Red
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    Martha Wells
    “So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
    ― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition
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    Martha Wells
    “Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.”
    ― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition
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  • #27
    “I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
    ― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
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  • #28
    “I know I’m not coming back.”
    ― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
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  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: humor, trees
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity
    3210 likes



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