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    Anne McCaffrey
    “Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
    Harper, strike, and soldier, go
    Free the flame and sear the grasses
    Til the dawning Red Star passes”
    ― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong
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    Dean Koontz
    “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
    ― Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
    tags: friendship
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    “Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
    ― Garth Nix, Sabriel
    tags: destiny, path, questioning
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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    Kim Harrison
    “That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”
    ― Kim Harrison, For a Few Demons More
    tags: rachel, the-hollows, trent
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    Kim Harrison
    “Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.”
    ― Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking
    tags: beaurocracy, humor, management
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    Kim Harrison
    “I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff”
    ― Kim Harrison, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
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    Anne McCaffrey
    “Who wills, Can.
    Who tries, Does.
    Who loves, Lives.”
    ― Anne McCaffrey
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    Anne McCaffrey
    “Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
    Of hope and promise on dragonwing”
    ― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money
    tags: adeptness, dexterity, men, poise, superiority, women
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
    tags: fate, humor, pessimism
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. ”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, A Wodehouse Bestiary
    tags: cats, fish, humor
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    Jeff Lindsay
    “Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
    ― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark
    tags: black-lizard, vintage-crime
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    Jeff Lindsay
    “After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.”
    ― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
    tags: dexter, random
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    Patricia C. Wrede
    “Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?”

    “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.”

    “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
    ― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons
    tags: actions-over-words, frog, funny
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton
    tags: sci-fi, wisdom
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Friends don't count the cost of favors.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed”
    ― Laurell. K. Hamilton
    tags: humour
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
    tags: anita-blake, bad-ass, funny
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
    tags: inspirational, life, meredith-gentry, nice
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude.
    Yeah, those are the words.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bloody Bones
    tags: anita-blake, bad-ass, funny
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
    tags: helping, humor
    331 likes



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