“There is no greater bore than perfection.”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“It's so dark," he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
Born place: in Poughkeepsie, New York, The United States
Born date October 17, 1893
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“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Myrddin”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“An evil librarian is taking over the school. He appears to be making my best friend his special evil library monitor.”
― Michelle Knudsen, quote from Evil Librarian
“Nah … Sorta … I s’pose you could say … Yes. So you see, arter I lost the first time—my ante the gun-sword, his the ship yonder—he asked me if I wanted to go double or nothin’. I felt real down-like about losing your poky boom stick, plus I didn’t have anything left to lose ’cept this mighty fine jacket what I plundered from an Ilytian pirate king. Plust, whenever has Gunner’s luck been so bad he’s lost twice in a row?” He twisted his ratty beard. “So, uh, arter I lost again, he”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Blood Mirror
“You mustn’t take any notice of her,’ says Enigma. ‘I often sing a little song in my head until she’s finished talking.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from The Last Anniversary
“There are no heroes, Tian Haoli. Grand Secretary Shi was both courageous and cowardly, capable and foolish. Wang Xiuchu was both an opportunistic survivor and a man of greatness of spirit. I’m mostly selfish and vain, but sometimes even I surprise myself. We’re all just ordinary men—well, I’m an ordinary demon—faced with extraordinary choices. In those moments, sometimes heroic ideals demand that we become their avatars.”
― Ken Liu, quote from The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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