Sixteen different objections rose up in my mind at once and somehow they all canceled each other out. Maybe if there had been an odd number …
“SOCIETY IS DOOMED for one very simple reason: it takes dozens of men working months with millions of dollars in materials to build a building, but only one dumb-ass with a bomb to bring it down.”
― John Dies at the End
― John Dies at the End
“The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn’t tell them?”
― Dune
― Dune
“feeling like you wanted desperately to die was fine evidence that you had yet to do so.”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
“When you don’t know everything you could know, it’s a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.”
― Dune
― Dune
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