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Neverwhere: A Novel: Neil Gaiman

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"The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys."

"Nice in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters."

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Good Omens: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

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"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home."

"That's how it goes, you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you."

"A favorite game in quarry had been based on a highly successful film series with lasers, robots, and a princess who wore her hair like a pair of stereo headphones."

"Many phenomena -- wars, plagues, sudden audits -- have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A."

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American Gods: A Novel: Neil Gaiman

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"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."

"One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory; you must remember this."

"There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous."

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We the Living: Ayn Rand

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"Do you believe in God, Andrei? No. Neither do I. But that's a favorite question of mine. An upside-down question, you know. What do you mean? Well, if I asked people whether they believed in life, they'd never understand what I meant. It's a bad question. It can mean so much that it really means nothing. So I ask them if they believe in God. And if they say they do -- then, I know they don't believe in life. Why? Because, you see, God -- whatever anyone chooses to call God -- is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own."

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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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"To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'"

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

"Worry is a waste of emotional reserve."

"Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched."

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand

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"I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

"I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence."

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."

"You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live."

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

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Villa Incognito: Tom Robbins

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"We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake."

"It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected, aren't working together harmoniously, well, you're just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you're walking, you may think you're running a damn marathon, but you're only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained."

"Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation."

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Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel: Tom Stoppard

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"I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it."

"Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos."

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Sea-Monkeys Original Instant Life

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These are awesome. And everyone should have these as a pet as a child before anything else. Because if you can't keep brine shrimp alive, there's no need to try your hand at a puppy.

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Jumpers: Tom Stoppard

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"There is presumably a calendar date — a moment — when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it."

"It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting."

"How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight."

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