Quotes for the Ages

[Brian861]

"Some people, as De Quincey said, have a natural aptitude for being murdered."

(Charles Williams, War in Heaven)

One of my all-time favorite literary quotes is from The Handmaid's Tale: "Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

I also loved from Koontz's Odd Thomas: "We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be."

Good ones.

[bugen]

Usually the only people who find out about our family secret do so on their last and worst day.

(Jonathan Maberry, "Three Guys Walk into a Bar," Limbus II)

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"I've never known a suicide that didn't cause more agony than it cured."

-Reggie Oliver, "Death Mask"

[Brian861]

"I've never known a suicide that didn't cause more agony than it cured."

-Reggie Oliver, "Death Mask"

Dark but no doubt very true.

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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

-Neil Gaiman, Coraline (paraphrased from a G.K. Chesterton quote)

[frik51]

"Happiness should remain unexplained for as long as possible"

Stephen King (can't recall the book)

The Tommyknockers

Full quote: “And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”

sk

[Brian861]

The Tommyknockers

Full quote: “And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”

sk

Thanks, Siep! Been awhile since I read that one.....A long while.....

[bugen]

"If we are the toys of the gods--are not perhaps the gods themselves mere children?"

Michael Moorcock, "Sad Giant's Shield"

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"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."

-Stephen King, "The Body"

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"Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out."

-James Sallis, Drive

[mhatchett]

Sallis, a guy who proves over and over again that a novel does not have to be a tome. What a writer!

[bugen]

"Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you just make up the rest."

-Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

[bugen]

"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

[bugen]

"Tie goes to the writer."

-Stephen King, On Writing

[Theli]

"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

I like this quote.