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    Iain Banks
    “You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
    ― Iain Banks
    tags: history, reading, sci-fi
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    Glen Cook
    “Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”
    ― Glen Cook, Shadow Games
    tags: cynicism, humor, life
    268 likes

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    Glen Cook
    “. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.”
    ― Glen Cook
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    David Brin
    “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
    ― David Brin
    tags: life, power
    156 likes

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    David Brin
    “Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
    ― David Brin, Brightness Reef
    tags: science
    57 likes

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    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: future, planning
    1080 likes

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    Joe Haldeman
    “Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:
    he never told me he was from another world:
    I never told him I was from his future. ”
    ― Joe Haldeman
    tags: science-fiction, sestina, spoiler
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    Joe Haldeman
    “There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.”
    ― Joe Haldeman
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    Robert B. Parker
    “REST IN PEACE, MR. PARKER.

    'You want us to be surreptitious?' Hawk said.

    'Surreptitious?' Sapp said.

    'I educated in Head Start,' Hawk said.

    'Really worked,' Sapp said.

    'No reason to be covert,' I said.

    'You too?' Sapp said.

    'Nope,' I said. 'I'm a straight Anglo white guy of European ancestry. We're naturally smart.'

    'You missed Bernard,' Sapp said.

    'Tall straight Anglo white guy,' I said.

    'Hey,' Bernard said.
    ”
    ― Robert B Parker
    tags: humor, pot-shot
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    Roger Zelazny
    “There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber
    tags: civilization, culture, war
    134 likes

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    Roger Zelazny
    “I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
    tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words
    552 likes

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    Barbara Hambly
    “The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.”
    ― Barbara Hambly, The Time of the Dark
    tags: advice, fantasy
    63 likes

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    Jerry Pournelle
    “We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.”
    ― Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
    tags: fear, moties
    10 likes

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    Michael Moorcock
    “What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”
    ― Michael Moorcock
    152 likes

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    Michael Moorcock
    “Treasures are not won by care and forethought
    but by swift slaying and reckless attack.”
    ― Michael Moorcock
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    Michael Moorcock
    “Time is the enemy of identity”
    ― Michael Moorcock
    tags: identity, time
    82 likes

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  • #17
    David Drake
    “The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.”
    ― David Drake, The Voyage
    tags: war
    30 likes

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    David Drake
    “History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”
    ― David Drake, Patriots
    tags: history, truth
    19 likes

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    Laurie R. King
    “Eccentricty had flowered into madness.”
    ― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
    60 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: politics
    918 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
    4800 likes

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    Neal Stephenson
    “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
    ― Neal Stephenson
    tags: bad, bad-guy, bad-person, crime, humor, motherfucker, revenge
    637 likes

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    Neal Stephenson
    “The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”
    ― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
    tags: argument, trolls
    512 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid
    1480 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
    923 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: family
    2944 likes

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    Patricia Briggs
    “I don't like it when I outweigh my men.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
    tags: humor, love, women
    626 likes

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    Patricia Briggs
    “It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.”
    ― Patricia Briggs
    tags: dragon-blood, humor
    296 likes

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    Patricia Briggs
    “MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
    tags: grave-offenses, humor
    1251 likes



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