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“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Romance at short notice was her specialty.”
― Saki, The Open Window and Other Short Stories

“- You know what this is?
- Nope
- It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
"Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
"Fuck you," said the raven.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.”
― Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller

“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You’re making everyone around you miserable.
You’re making yourself miserable. Perfection? There’s about five times a year you wake up perfect, when you can’t lose to anybody, but it’s not those five times a year that make a tennis player. Or a human being, for that matter. It’s the other times. It’s all about your head, man.
-Brad Gilbert”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“The Templars lost their Christianity when they discovered banking,”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“There are two types of people in the world: people who like heavy metal, and dicks.”
― Andrew O'Neill, A History of Heavy Metal: 'Absolutely hilarious' – Neil Gaiman