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#1

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#2

“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

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#3

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
― Christopher Marlowe

tags: happiness, love, money

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#4

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: hoid, humor, luck, wit

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#5

“You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: humor, life-and-living

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#6

“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: honesty, insults, kaladin, shallan-davar

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#7

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

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#8

“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: bullshit, lying

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#9

“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

tags: absurdity, authority, life, rules, society

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#10

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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#11

“When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#12

“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

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#13

“Kaladin frowned. “Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?”
“Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated.”
“Storms, you’re spoiled,” Kaladin said, smiling.
“I’m refined, you insolent farmer,” Adolin said. Then he grinned. “Besides, I’ll have you know that I had to use cold water for my baths while here.”
“Poor boy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: adolin-kholin, kaladin, prison, spoiled

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#14

“Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

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#15

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: jasnah-kholin

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#16

“Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

tags: corruption, life

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#17

“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: awesomeness, lift

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#18

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: hoid, humor, prison

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#19

“I can see what you’re up to.”
“Five foot six inches,” Shallan said. “I suspect that’s all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: adolin-kholin, humor, shallan-davar

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#20

“When did you get so peppy?” she shouted.
“Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't.”
“Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while,” she snapped. “If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: kaladin, shallan-davar

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#21

“In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

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#22

“How . . .” Dalinar said. “You fell into a chasm!”
“I fell face-first, sir,” Kaladin said, “and fortunately, I’m particularly hard-headed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: dalinar, dalinar-kholin, kaladin

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#23

“Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#24

“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."

Everyone in the room stared at him.

"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: assholes, bondsmagi, cauterizing, tongues, torture

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#25

“Locke sighed.
'So this is winning,' he said.
'It is,' replied Jean.
'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: humor

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#26

“You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: gentlemen-bastards, locke-lamora, the-lies-of-locke-lamora

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#27

“I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

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#28

“This is insanity!"
"No, this is scholarship!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: insanity, scholarship, shallan-davar

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#29

“To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

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#30

“It must be nice to be righteous; from where I stand it looks like fucking lunacy.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: locke-lamora

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