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    #16
    Originally posted by bugen View Post
    "Some people, as De Quincey said, have a natural aptitude for being murdered."

    (Charles Williams, War in Heaven)
    Originally posted by markgunnells View Post
    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.

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      #17
      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)
      “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
      -John Barth

      https://bugensbooks.com/

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        #18
        "I've never known a suicide that didn't cause more agony than it cured."

        -Reggie Oliver, "Death Mask"
        “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
        -John Barth

        https://bugensbooks.com/

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          #19
          Originally posted by bugen View Post
          "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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            #20
            "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)
            Last edited by bugen; 10-24-2015, 05:51 PM. Reason: this version of quote is Gaiman's, not Chesterton's
            “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
            -John Barth

            https://bugensbooks.com/

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              #21
              Originally posted by Brian861 View Post
              "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

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                #22
                Originally posted by frik51 View Post
                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.....

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                  #23
                  "If we are the toys of the gods--are not perhaps the gods themselves mere children?"

                  Michael Moorcock, "Sad Giant's Shield"
                  “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                  -John Barth

                  https://bugensbooks.com/

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                    #24
                    "The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."

                    -Stephen King, "The Body"
                    “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                    -John Barth

                    https://bugensbooks.com/

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                      #25
                      "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
                      “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                      -John Barth

                      https://bugensbooks.com/

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                        #26
                        Sallis, a guy who proves over and over again that a novel does not have to be a tome. What a writer!

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                          #27
                          "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
                          “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                          -John Barth

                          https://bugensbooks.com/

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                            #28
                            "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
                            “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                            -John Barth

                            https://bugensbooks.com/

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                              #29
                              "Tie goes to the writer."

                              -Stephen King, On Writing
                              “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                              -John Barth

                              https://bugensbooks.com/

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                                #30
                                Originally posted by bugen View Post
                                "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.

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