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Holy Father, you keep giving me lessons to learn from, and I’m trying. But if it pleases you, can you slow them down just a little so I can try to keep up?
“I've got a chainsaw with my name on it in my workshop," Milo told us happily. "If I'm ever killed by undead, I want you guys to chop me up with it. It's a good chainsaw."
"I reckon it is, Milo. I would be honored to chop your head off," Sam said.”
― Monster Hunter International
"I reckon it is, Milo. I would be honored to chop your head off," Sam said.”
― Monster Hunter International
“Drop dead-but first get permit”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Jerry thought about what a letter of recommendation from a council of wizards would look like in his resume file.
"Totally secret," he said firmly.”
― The Wizardry Compiled
"Totally secret," he said firmly.”
― The Wizardry Compiled
“Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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