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#1

“Мы будем делать Добро из Зла, потому что его больше не из чего делать.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

tags: science-fiction

83 likes

#2

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

1605 likes

#3

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

3145 likes

#4

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

tags: morality

359 likes

#5

“Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles in Love

tags: aim-high, humor

91 likes

#6

“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

43 likes

#7

“Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?"
"Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, CryoBurn

48 likes

#8

“Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles Errant

tags: borders-of-infinity, miles, vorkosigan

44 likes

#9

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

tags: children, parenting

37 likes

#10

“Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....”
― Lois McMaster Bujold

tags: science-fiction, spiritual-wisdom

33 likes

#11

“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

tags: inspirational

95 likes

#12

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

2610 likes

#13

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

1698 likes

#14

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

771 likes

#15

“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”
― O. Henry, Selected Stories

76 likes

#16

“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”
― O. Henry

tags: civilization, hypocrisy, liars

89 likes

#17

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6235 likes

#18

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11727 likes

#19

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

18022 likes

#20

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

7746 likes

#21

“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

tags: humor, scifi

23455 likes

#22

“There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale.. Love and blood. They both posses a mighty power. Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that-"
"That what, Geralt?"
"It has to be true love”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

23 likes

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