Quotes for the Ages

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"Why should things be as they should be? They never have been before."

Max Brooks, World War Z

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"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

-Mark Twain (origination contested)

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Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
There was no one there.

-Anonymous (The Sopranos)

[William J. Grabowski]

Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
There was no one there.

-Anonymous (The Sopranos)

Love that quote.

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"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

-Blaise Pascal

[William J. Grabowski]

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

-Blaise Pascal

“The universal condition of mankind [is] a state of loss.”—John Fowles

“There is a mania to call the lost thing until it returns.”—Günter Grass

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“The universal condition of mankind [is] a state of loss.”—John Fowles

“There is a mania to call the lost thing until it returns.”—Günter Grass

Good combination.

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"We of Man's creation are left to mourn his passing, and to worship the memory of Man, who controlled all that he knew save only himself."

-Lester Del Rey, "The Faithful"

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I've recently been romanced and steamrolled by Castle, so to return to darkness:

Every hand's a winner
And every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for
Is to die in your sleep

-Kenny Rogers "The Gambler"

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

One of my favorite passages ever.

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"The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely."

-H.P. Lovecraft, "Pickman's Model"

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"You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so f@#$ing smart how come they lose so goddamn always?"

-The Newsroom (Aaron Sorkin)

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"I have proof, scientific. People are far dumber than they realize."

-Nan Flanagan, True Blood