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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” (Fahrenheit 451)
“Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.” Robert Silverberg, Up The Line
“42”
The answer to the question of the life the universe and everything from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Yeah. I forgot that one. 42 😉
“We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.” 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson
…do you want to live forever?
Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers
What would Roy Merritt do? – Daniel Suarez. Freedom(TM)
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)
reat tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign (Vorkosigan Saga, #12)
The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present — they are real.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8)
I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)
I could keep going, but there’s too many.
Great choices, Bujold really can pen an unforgettable one liner.
“Free of name and purpose, what do I gain? I have logic and laughter, but can trust neither my eyes nor my hands. The tenebrous city, city without time, the generous, saprophytic city: it is morning, and I miss the clear night.” Samuel R. Delaney, Dhalgren.
Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you (humans)…. you are at your best when things are worst
“It’s amazing how much ‘mature wisdom’ resembles being too tired”.
from The Notebooks Of Lazarus Long..
Woodrow Wilson Smith (aka Robert A. Heinlein)
What’s the point of being an adult, if you can’t act like a child now and then? Dr Who
This should win number 1 quote!
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” (Fahrenheit 451)
Love the quote, except it is from real life
. quote is from Sgt Dan Dailey a U S Marine during WWI. And was really similar to a quote from Frederick the Great.
Thanks for letting me know. I feel really silly for not knowing the original source.