Oleg X

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Oleg X is Currently Reading

Oleg X is currently reading

The Martian Contingency (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4)

by Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: alternate-history, sci-fi, currently-reading

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Oleg X’s Quotes

“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

tags: humor, proverb

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“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid

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“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

tags: luck, magic, science

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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

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