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I'd quote Erikson here but I do believe Suze has already done that.

The only one that comes to mind is:'no one likes a smart ass" from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was at the end of the shortest chapter that told a funny story about a tough problem scientists were working on when a young scientist swooped in and solved it. It's funnier in context.

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Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh (Post 1595283)

I'd quote Erikson here but I do believe Suze has already done that.

One can never quote too much Erikson. Here, I'll do it for you. :D

“Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?'
The Imass shrugged before replying.
'I think of futility, Adjunct.'
'Do all Imass think about futility?'
'No. Few think at all.'
'Why is that?'
The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her.
'Because Adjunct, it is futile.”

Oh, that's a good one. :). I was thinking of Caladan Brood though. Specifically, this one, which may as well be repeated:

Kallor said "I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?"
"Yes," said Caladan Brood, "you never learn."

This I say to your merciless, pretty woman. ;)

Okay, okay, one last Erikson quote. Brings a tear to my eye.

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He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony.
Imagine a world without such souls.
Yes, it should have been harder to do.

Why do I not believe you?

Apparently, I don't believe me, either.

"Have you come forth to grovel at my feet? Are you my first acolyte, then, eager for my rewards?"

"Alas," the man replied, "you are mistaken, sir. Kruppe -this humble, weak mortal who stands before you- bows to no man, be he Jaghut or god. Such are the nuances of this new age that you are felled by indifference..."

- Raest and Kruppe, Gardens of the Moon.

I like Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger.

Crake on what causes problems with civilizations. From Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.

“Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake’s view. Next they’d be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war."

Oh boy, I love leafing through threads like these...

I'd say I have a few favourites, as of now. Some are thoughtful, some make me laugh, some just feel right.

Douglas Adams

J.R.R. Tolkein.

S.W. Vaughn

Fiona Macleod

How do you hurt a man who's lost everything? Give him back something broken.
-- Stephen R. Donaldson.

"I wonder...am I really a bastard or am I just really good at thinking like one?"

-Terry Pratchett

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

This book is so quotable.

Oh that's a good one Faux. I haven't read any of Palahniuk's books but my sisters has and tells me that they are really something else.

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"Atticus said to Jem one day, 'I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'"That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it."'Your father's right,' she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'"

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
I have the bold bit tattooed on my forearm, because I love it so much.

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THE untold want, by life and land ne’er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

The Untold Want, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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“What kind of human creates his own policeman?”
“One who fears the dark.”
“And so he should,” said the entity, with satisfaction.
“Indeed. But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep the darkness out. I am here to keep it in.” There was a clink of metal as the shadowy watchman lifted a dark lantern and opened its little door. Orange light cut through the blackness. “Call me… the Guarding Dark. Imagine how strong I must be.”
The Summoning Dark backed desperately into the alley, but the light followed it, burning it.
“And now,” said the watchman, “get out of town.”

Thud!, Terry Pratchett
I have a tattoo of the mine sign symbol for the Guarding Dark on my left shoulder.

And I want tattoos of/based on the other two quotes as well.

"To be continued?"
-Alaska, Looking for Alaska