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“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

“Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn't like that at all.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“It's my right as an American to fly that flag! Yeah? Well, buddy, lemme tell ya, screaming about your rights as an American while rockin' the Confederate flag is like arguing against gay marriage with a dick in your mouth. Makes no sense. But, see, rednecks are immune to irony.”
― Trae Crowder, The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark

“Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give,”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
― Harlan Ellison

“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“A king fortifies himself with a castle,” observed the Count, “a gentleman with a desk.” As”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Let that be a lesson to you: If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“If Pietrok-111 was a one-horse town, Pietrok-112 was the glue factory where that horse went to die.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Adults spend their lives unwinding their childhood.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“What good does it do to be valuable, if nobody values you?”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

“I don’t believe war ever does. It’s a madness that’s in our nature. Sometimes it recurs; sometimes it subsides.” “Sounds like a disease.” “The herpes simplex of the species?”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!