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#1

“Life will find a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

#2

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

tags: art, photography

25 likes

#3

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: fitzgerald

2278 likes

#4

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

4708 likes

#5

“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

33 likes

#6

“Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

306 likes

#7

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

382 likes

#8

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: absurd-but-nicely-phrased, food, foodie

535 likes

#9

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1108 likes

#10

“And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

246 likes

#11

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: theatre

118 likes

#12

“Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn't, you might burn the world to the ground.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

78 likes

#13

“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

tags: falsehood, falsity, lies, max-brooks, truth, world-war-z

424 likes

#14

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

2556 likes

#15

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: people, truth, wisdom

714 likes

#16

“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

3663 likes

#17

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1637 likes

#18

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan

1057 likes

#19

“Things always look darkest in the middle of the night.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

34 likes

#20

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

400 likes

#21

“Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

224 likes

#22

“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: duke-leto-atreides

581 likes

#23

“She runs. Not away, but toward.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

135 likes

#24

“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

tags: ontology

219 likes

#25

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: gossip

373 likes

#26

“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

3960 likes

#27

“You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

tags: science

147 likes

#28

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: identity, pretend

4095 likes

#29

“Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

tags: dinosaurs, ian-malcolm, jurassic-park, science

80 likes

#30

“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

637 likes

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