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  • #1
    “Sanity is for the weak”
    ― Uke family motto
    tags: family, motto, sanity, weak, weakness
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
    ― Neal Stephenson
    tags: bad, bad-guy, bad-person, crime, humor, motherfucker, revenge
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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
    “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding
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    Orson Scott Card
    “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team
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    Orson Scott Card
    “I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: childhood, introduction, orson-scott-card, personhood
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  • #8
    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
    “Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: humor
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  • #10
    Orson Scott Card
    “Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: ender, ender-wiggin, graff, killing
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  • #11
    Orson Scott Card
    “I also remembered that you were beautiful."
    "Memory does play tricks on us."
    "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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  • #12
    Orson Scott Card
    “An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: enemy, learning-from-enemies, learning-from-others, mazer-rackham
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: ender, freedom, necessity, service
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: happiness, humanity, mazer-rackham
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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    Orson Scott Card
    “I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: ender-wiggin, identity, pain
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    Orson Scott Card
    “He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. ”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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  • #18
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #19
    Jerry Scott
    “I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!”
    ― Jerry Scott
    tags: carpe-diem, humor, latin, zits
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  • #20
    Jerry Scott
    “The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.”
    ― Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman
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  • #21
    Jeph Jacques
    “What's the point of having a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?”
    ― Jeph Jacques
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  • #22
    Thomas Siddell
    “We all eat a handful of dirt before we die, who cares if it tastes like cherries?”
    ― Tom Siddell
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  • #23
    Warren Ellis
    “Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.”
    ― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
    tags: character-defining, comics, humor
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  • #24
    Warren Ellis
    “Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!”
    ― Warren Ellis
    tags: alcohol, drinking, humor
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    Warren Ellis
    “You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.”
    ― Warren Ellis
    tags: journalism, writing
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  • #26
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
    tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
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  • #27
    “the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”
    ― Karin Tansek
    tags: barbarian, civility, civilization, politeness
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  • #28
    John R. Erickson
    “Buzzards don’t make good friends. They always have an interior motive.”
    ― John R. Erickson, Hank the Cowdog
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  • #29
    Carrie Fisher
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
    ― Carrie Fisher
    tags: envy, jealousy, resentment, spite
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  • #30
    Suzanne Collins
    “I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
    "No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: jealousy, sweet-talk
    754 likes



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