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01c. 1970 AD

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.

Kevin Hearne / quote

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02c. 1970 AD

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

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03c. 1970 AD

come humans, fulfill your evolutionary purpose adn build your hound a fire." Oberon

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04c. 1970 AD

But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.

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05c. 1970 AD

Jesus "...It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name.

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06c. 1970 AD

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.Atticus O'Sullivan

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07c. 1970 AD

When in doubt, know your way out, I always say.""I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'""Well, yeah, that too.""I don't think those are very practical solutions to doubt," Oberon said. "They don't leave you feeling satisfied. 'When in doubt, eat your neighbor's lunch' is better, because then you would at least be full.

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08c. 1970 AD

This bastard is so guilty he already has his lawyer here.

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09c. 1970 AD

When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it?

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10c. 1970 AD

Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” the limits of blank verse weakened his resolve somehow. If he’d been free to follow the dictates of his conscience rather than the pen of Shakespeare, perhaps he would have abandoned verse altogether, like me, and contented himself with this instead: “Bring it, muthafuckas. Bring it.

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11c. 1970 AD

Morrigan "What are guilt ferrets:"Atticus "They're bastards. They cling to your neck and tickle and bite and generally make you miserable, which is a pretty good trick for a metaphor." They were also impervious to logic, perhaps their most diabolical power.

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12c. 1970 AD

May harmony find you" Atticus

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13c. 1970 AD

And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life

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14c. 1970 AD

The answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style.

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15c. 1970 AD

She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more.

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16c. 1970 AD

For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.

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17c. 1970 AD

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory out

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18c. 1970 AD

PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.”“Ah!” Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. “They are politicians?

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