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    Stacia Kane
    “Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can."

    [Blog entry, January 9, 2012]”
    ― Stacia Kane
    tags: authors, books, opinions, readers, reviews
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    Cedric Nye
    “I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it in a bush somewhere.”
    ― Cedric Nye, The Road to Hell is Paved With Zombies
    tags: apocalypse, threat, zombie-fighter-jango, zombies, zompoc
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    Stacia Kane
    “People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
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    Stacia Kane
    “He's my family," she said finally. Quietly. "He's everything.”
    ― Stacia Kane
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Cameron Jace
    “All monsters must die except the beautiful ones”
    ― Cameron Jace, Snow White Sorrow
    tags: cameron-jace, monsters, snow-white
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
    tags: books, reading
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    Cedric Nye
    “If you can cut the head off of this broom-goober with that sword, then I'll believe you can gank zombies with it.”
    ― Cedric Nye, The Road to Hell is Paved With Zombies
    tags: apocalypse, sword, weapons, zombie-fighter-jango, zombies
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

    [Letter to James Smith discussing Jefferson's hate of the doctrine of the Christian trinity, December 8 1822]”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: absurdities, athanasian, athanasian-creed, gullibility, martyrs, reason, the-trinity, trinitarian, trinity
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: government, ideas, taxes
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    E.E. Knight
    “The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs were lost, and consumer consumption fell in a corporate death spiral as the aging technoczars were revealed to have feet of clay. Financial institutions underreacted, the government overreacted, and a society living on borrowed time paid for with borrowed dollars failed. Hard times and hunger came to the Western world, which was all the more of a shock because the generation that survived the last financial collapse had virtually died out.”
    ― E.E. Knight, Way of the Wolf
    tags: apocalyptic, post-apocalypse, prophecy-in-fiction
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    “When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.”
    ― A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner
    tags: funny, paranormal, weird
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    “Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
    ― A. Lee Martinez
    tags: writer-quotes, writers, writers-on-writing, writing-life
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    “Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”
    ― A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner
    tags: fruitcake, reality
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    John Twelve Hawks
    “Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.”
    ― John Twelve Hawks, The Traveler
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    John Twelve Hawks
    “If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.”
    ― John Twelve Hawks, The Dark River
    tags: culture, science-fiction, technology
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    John Twelve Hawks
    “I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.”
    ― John Twelve Hawks, The Traveler
    tags: commercial, consumer, news, television, tv
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    John Twelve Hawks
    “When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.”
    ― John Twelve Hawks, The Golden City
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    John Twelve Hawks
    “Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.”
    ― John Twelve Hawks, The Traveler
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    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: past, yesterday
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    Ann Aguirre
    “She carries chaos like an overcoat.”
    ― Ann Aguirre, Aftermath
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    Dan Wells
    “It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.”
    ― Dan Wells, Mr. Monster
    tags: dan-wells, identify-with, john-cleaver, killers, psychopaths, shock
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    Ramsey Campbell
    “Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.”
    ― Ramsey Campbell
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    Ramsey Campbell
    “One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.”
    ― Ramsey Campbell
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    David Moody
    “Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.”
    ― David Moody, Autumn
    tags: life, living, reason, survival
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    China Miéville
    “The dead are way more organized than the living.”
    ― China Miéville, Un Lun Dun
    tags: dead, death, humor
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    Frank Herbert
    “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
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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