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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “The world is full of rattlesnakes. Sometimes you step on them and they don’t bite. Sometimes you step over them and they bite anyway.”
    Stephen King, You Like It Darker

  • #2
    Tommy Orange
    “This is the thing: If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right or not, or whether it even deserves consideration, that’s how you know you’re on board the ship that serves hors d’oeuvres and fluffs your pillows, while others are out at sea, swimming or drowning, or clinging to little inflatable rafts that they have to take turns keeping inflated, people short of breath, who’ve never even heard of the words hors d’oeuvres or fluff. Then someone from up on the yacht says, "It's too bad those people down there are lazy, and not as smart and able as we are up here, we who have built these strong, large, stylish boats ourselves, we who float the seven seas like kings." And then someone else on board says something like, "But your father gave you this yacht, and these are his servants who brought the hors d'oeuvres." At which point that person gets tossed overboard by a group of hired thugs who'd been hired by the father who owned the yacht, hired for the express purpose of removing any and all agitators on the yacht to keep them from making unnecessary waves, or even referencing the father or the yacht itself. Meanwhile, the man thrown overboard begs for his life, and the people on the small inflatable rafts can't get to him soon enough, or they don't even try, and the yacht's speed and weight cause an undertow. Then in whispers, while the agitator gets sucked under the yacht, private agreements are made, precautions are measured out, and everyone quietly agrees to keep on quietly agreeing to the implied rule of law and to not think about what just happened. Soon, the father, who put these things in place, is only spoken of in the form of lore, stories told to children at night, under the stars, at which point there are suddenly several fathers, noble, wise forefathers. And the boat sails on unfettered.”
    Tommy Orange, There There

  • #3
    “..the power outage caused the stage manager to drop the curtain - much to the surprise of Ronnie Wood, who was standing directly underneath it at the time and was almost killed by about half a ton of falling velvet (because, let me tell you, in those days a curtain was a curtain.) It was while we were backstage, getting the power restored, that I noticed I had spent the entire opening number with my flies undone.”
    Rod Stewart, Rod: The Autobiography

  • #4
    Timothy Zahn
    “People of authority love capes.”
    Timothy Zahn, Thrawn: Treason

  • #5
    Timothy Zahn
    “The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliance to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of powerful men like Lord Vader.”
    Timothy Zahn, Thrawn: Alliances

  • #6
    Delilah S. Dawson
    “Your future is more important than your past. Make it count.”
    Delilah S. Dawson, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade

  • #7
    George Mann
    “That seed of hope that you cling to, that belief that the Jedi will rise above this, will bring an end to all that I have done… it is a fallacy.”
    George Mann, The Eye of Darkness

  • #8
    “It’s also hard to trust yourself when you know you’re that person that might run out the door.”
    James Lapine, Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend...”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

  • #14
    Timothy Zahn
    “Uncertainty can be the most difficult and frightening of mental states. If you’re always wondering which way to go, you might freeze up and not go anywhere. If you’re afraid you can’t do something, you might not even try.”
    Timothy Zahn, Chaos Rising

  • #15
    Jeph Loeb
    “Hulk is Hulk”
    Jeph Loeb

  • #16
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Blacks aren't bigger, it's documented in their tribal photos. (The quote that end's anti-Black racism)”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #17
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Often those with less have more.”
    Matthew Edward Hall



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