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“The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time.”
― Bruce Campbell, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

tags: adulthood

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“to go on waiting for the right moment in the hope that it would never come”
― Norbert Gstrein, Winters in the South

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#3

“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: humour, writing

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#4

“The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution”
― Lance Parkin, Time, Unincorporated 1: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives: Lance Parkin

tags: creationism, evolution, language

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#5

“It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: cancer, death, humour, morality

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#6

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

tags: mortality, pain

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#7

“Semi-automatics have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in awhile, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use – their only other use – is to kill people”
― Stephen King, Guns

tags: guns, sandy-hook-massacre

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#8

“The more attractive and athletic the character depicted on the T-shirt, the less attractive and athletic the fan wearing it”
― Nev Fountain, Geek Tragedy

tags: fans, geek, humor

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#9

“She laughed and unfastened her bra, unleashing her breasts like attack dogs”
― Nev Fountain, Geek Tragedy

tags: breasts, humor

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#10

“empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures”
― Michael Coorlim, A Gentlewoman's Chronicles

tags: drinking

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#11

“its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent”
― Mark O'Connell, Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

tags: art, criticism, language, writing

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#12

“The world is thinner in some places.”
― John Llewellyn Probert, Cthulhu Cymraeg

tags: cthulhu, supernatural

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#13

“You never get tired of looking at the stars”
― Warren Ellis, The Planetary Omnibus

tags: night, sky, stars

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#14

“It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.”
― Gillian Linscott, Holmes for the Holidays

tags: advice, age, experience, sherlock-holmes, wisdom

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#15

“The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.”
― Christopher L. Bennett

tags: history, life, time-travel

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#16

“The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.”
― Christopher L. Bennett, Watching the Clock

tags: guns, responsibility, trust, weapons

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#17

“The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

tags: generation-gap, generations, poverty, prosperity, time

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#18

“There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

tags: jargon, latin

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#19

“I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

tags: dreams, waking, waking-up

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#20

“Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.”
― Ian Fleming

tags: anxiety, worry

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#21

“When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference”
― Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

tags: authority, calm, calmness, defeat

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#22

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

tags: books, good-impressions

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#23

“Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.”
― P. J. O'Rourke, How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy

tags: journalism, politics, punditry, pundits

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#24

“Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.”
― P. J. O'Rourke, How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy

tags: america, americans, bad-taste, taste

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#25

“There comes a time when the fall of snow is no longer the start of a marvellous
adventure. There comes a time when it means scraping your windscreen and
hoping your car starts. It means aching joints and throbbing sinuses and cold
hands and feet. It means taking longer to get to work and spending all day
sitting in an office where the heating isn’t on. Grey slush and cracked pipes,
cancelled trains and influenza, that’s what snow means. You’ll wake up feeling
like that, one day, and it will mean you are grown up. I hope that day doesn’t
come soon.”
― Lance Parkin, Doctor Who: Father Time

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#26

“But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.”
― Dan Abnett, Xenos

tags: anger, inquisitor, threat, threatening

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#27

“all history in some ways wishes to say something about its own present time.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

tags: historiography, history

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#28

“The past itself is not a narrative. In its entirety, it is as chaotic, uncoordinated, and complex as life. History is about making sense of that mess, finding or creating patterns and meanings and stories from the maelstrom.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

tags: historiography, history, past, stories

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#29

“For nothing ever ends, really; stories lead to other stories, journeys across a thousand miles of ocean lead to journeys across a continent, and the meanings and interpretations of these stories are legion. 'Origins' are simply where we choose to pick up the story, dictating (and dictated by) what kind of story it is we wish to tell. 'Outcomes' are where we wearily draw to a close.”
― John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction

tags: historiography, history, journeys, origins, outcomes, stories

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#30

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: benefit, war

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