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  • #1
    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    Richard Hughes

  • #2
    “Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”
    A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner

  • #3
    “Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
    A. Lee Martinez

  • #4
    “When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.”
    A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner

  • #5
    “Death should take more care with his paperwork.”
    A. Lee Martinez, A Nameless Witch

  • #6
    “Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.”
    A. Lee Martinez, A Nameless Witch

  • #7
    “He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
    A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner

  • #8
    “A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.”
    A. Lee Martinez

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #10
    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #11
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #12
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #13
    Michael Herr
    “Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.”
    Michael Herr, Dispatches

  • #14
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #15
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #18
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #19
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #20
    Joseph Heller
    “It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #21
    Isaac Asimov
    “It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #22
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

  • #23
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

  • #24
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Everybody lies about sex.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #25
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #26
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Sense is never common.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #28
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated out of nothing, “blasphemy” is the most amazing—with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for second and third place.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #29
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one.”
    Robert A. Heinlein , Time Enough for Love



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