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#1

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen

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#2

“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Bell

tags: actions, consequences, karma, pay-it-forward, reciprocity, responsibility, spiritual-guidance

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#3

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#4

“Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: dogs-stuffed-animals

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#5

“I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#6

“But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.”
― Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology

tags: edda, loki

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#7

“Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.”
― Eiichiro Oda

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#8

“Uh, Lunitaris idish, shirak, damen du!”
― Margaret Weis, Brothers in Arms

tags: dragonlance, fantasy, magic

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#9

“Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.”
― Dylan Moran

tags: comedy, humour, monster, standup

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#10

“I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.”
― Dylan Moran

tags: drugs, funny

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#11

“Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

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#12

“The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: cookies, descriptions, ghosts, humor, scent, setting, smell

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#13

“Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

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#14

“From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

tags: japan, japanese, japanese-literature, studying

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#15

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: identity

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#16

“One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

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#17

“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

tags: closing-line

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#18

“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. ”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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#19

“Now I will believe that there are unicorns...”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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#20

“Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted.
Shiloh doesn’t care.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

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#21

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#22

“I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: inspirational

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#23

“Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen

tags: death, fire, japan, japanese, japanese-literature

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#24

“Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Spider's Thread

tags: hell, japan, japanese, japanese-literature

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#25

“I don't remember who spoke first, but I do recall the first words between us: "How often we meet among old books!"
This was the start of our friendship.”
― Ōgai Mori, The Wild Geese

tags: friendship, japan, japanese, japanese-literature

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#26

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: harry-dresden, humor, motivation, optimism, thomas-raith, waldo-butters

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#28

“and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.”
― Margaret Weis, The Soulforge

tags: raistlin-majere

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#29

“Sometimes dead is better”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

tags: creed, dead, death, undead

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#30

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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#31

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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