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Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead. Neal Stephenson
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). Terry Prachett
Bill Watterson quote: "Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to..."
Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful. Bill Watterson
Graham Greene quote: "The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details..."
The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter. Graham Greene
And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap...it drives me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. Henry Miller
Jodi Picoult quote: "But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little..."
But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be disappointed. Jodi Picoult
Walter Pater quote: "He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what,..."
He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... Walter Pater
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. Herman Hesse
Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i. e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet... David Foster Wallace
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continue? Jeanette Winterson
Thomas Moore quote: "Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give..."
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer. Thomas Moore
These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave. Roberto Bolano
Michael Frayn quote: "But that one single soul was emperor of the universe, no less..."
But that one single soul was emperor of the universe, no less than each of us. Michael Frayn
Haruki Murakami quote: "Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than..."
Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than hemorrhoids or tooth decay, and more refined than diarrhea Haruki Murakami
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. Joseph Conrad

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