“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot further with a smile and a gun. A smile, a gun, and a Brute get you the key to the city. —Al “Scarface” Capone, Interview, 1930”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“When I get those types, the men who just need to control everything, to tell everybody else what to do, I stick it in and break it off. I’m fighting for freedom.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“She had not liked the German at first, but she decided that that was just because he had shot her to death.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“It was a rare man you could trust with either a Thompson or a general ledger.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“Everybody thought they were in the right. The evilest bastards he had ever met had still thought of themselves as the good guys.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.”
― Nancy Garden, quote from Annie on My Mind
“Don't look at me like that. I am not your answer, and you sure as fuck aren't mine.”
― Nora Sakavic, quote from The King's Men
“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”
― Marcel Proust, quote from Time Regained
“He left Molie’s at ten past midnight, twelve hundred New Dollars lighter. The pawnbroker had also sold him a limited but fairly effective disguise: gray hair, spectacles, mouth wadding, plastic buck-teeth which subtly transfigured his lip line. “Give yourself a little limp, too,” Molie advised. “Not a big attention-getter. Just a little one. Remember, you have the power to cloud men’s minds, if you use it. Don’t remember that line, do ya?” Richards didn’t.”
― Richard Bachman, quote from The Running Man
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