Top 50 A. Lee Martinez Quotes
#1. A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.
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#2. A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton
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#3. We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies.
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#4. In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
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#6. Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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#7. She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.
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#8. It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.
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#9. We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.
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#10. We all save ourselves child, even if we are fortunate enough to have help along the way.
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#11. We Venusians are sturdier than that. One can't even become part of the Protectorate until we've survived, naked and unarmed, in the harshest jungles of Venus. Only after a warrior crawls into civilization wearing the pelt of the fearsome screeching five-horned fiend do they pass the test.
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#12. It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
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#13. The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.
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#15. The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.
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#16. Humans ... You want a nice warm hug from a cold, indifferent universe.
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#17. Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.
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#18. Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.
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#19. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents
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#20. A sixth sense warned her that she was striking a Faustian bargain. Odd, since she wasn't sure what a Faustian bargain was. But it was something not to be taken lightly. She knew that.
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#21. He hasn't earned your your mercy."
Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.
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#22. But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window -
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#23. Heroes are carried on the backs of a thousand forgotten faces.
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#25. Duke tossed them over the roof. Earl was about to ask Duke to sit in back when he did so without prompting.
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#26. Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap.
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#27. All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.
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#30. He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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#31. I'm sorry, Mr. Whiteleaf. I'm not going to let a monster eat me for minimum wage.
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#32. When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.
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#33. I stand corrected. Yours is a far superior arbitrary system of governance.
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#34. Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
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#35. Destiny was a hope found in the hearts of desperate men. But sometimes, if they believed strongly enough, desperate men could do great things.
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#36. Are you a monster?" she asked. Helen smiled. "No, sweetie. I'm just an Enchanted American.
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#38. I wanted to glance one last time over my shoulder, but there was no reason to. Looking behind would only show me the things I'd seen, and everything of importance I could always see,
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#39. Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
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#40. Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
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#42. Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.
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#44. Vance shook his head. "Philly, I love you, buddy. I do. But you're not my type."
"I'm not?"
"What? Are you insulted?"
Philip was pondering that when the front door jingled.
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#45. To quote a great sage ... answer unclear, try again later.
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#46. Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
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#47. Danger was a part of questing. Perhaps some quests were dull and safe affairs. Go to the store. Pick up some eggs. Return henceforth with said eggs and thou shalt be rewarded with the sacred omelet of justice.
Nobody wrote legends about that type of quest.
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#48. Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.
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#49. Life isn't about the things you can't have... It is about those blessings you do find along the way.
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#50. Do these robots looked armed? And I was talking to the dinosaur. Were you worried he would discuss me to death?
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