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“To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.”
― Robert Rankin, Armageddon: The Musical

“The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“We are our own gods and our own demons”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Twilight Watch

“Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.”
― Tim Dorsey

“I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.”
― Tim Dorsey

“Belong to a religion? Doesn't bother me if you do, as long as it's not one that says to stop thinking and be loud about it.”
― Tim Dorsey, Torpedo Juice

“That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio.”
― Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill

“Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must”
― Tim Dorsey, Gator A-Go-Go

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Hood

“Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.”
― Larry Niven, Lucifer's Hammer

“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.   - Robert A. Heinlein”
― Larry Niven, Lucifer's Hammer

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”
― Larry Niven, Lucifer's Hammer

“Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before—it's half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“But as always, lessons are drawn from mistakes, not victories.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“EMS is medicine as modern anthropology.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Tim Dorsey, The Stingray Shuffle

“Serge bowed his own head and closed his eyes "God, please protect us from your followers. Amen”
― Tim Dorsey, The Stingray Shuffle

“I go over my own escape routes all the time. To survive in this state, you have to think like the French Resistance.”
― Tim Dorsey, The Stingray Shuffle

“Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination.”
― Tim Dorsey, The Stingray Shuffle

“Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.”
― Marcus Sakey, Written in Fire