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Mē-chan is Currently Reading

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Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17)

by Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 05, 2022 05:09AM

Mē-chan’s Quotes

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

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“He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Ombria in Shadow

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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

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“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

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“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.”
― Mike Carey, Vicious Circle

tags: cynic, cynicism

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