Top 32 Edward W. Robertson Quotes
#1. He decided that brains were made of all the parts of the body that the other organs had rejected.
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#2. Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention?
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#3. The worst thing of all was very simple: the disruption of the illusion of safety. That if you were a good person who worked hard and stayed within the law, you'd always be okay.
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#4. The dinosaurs had all died, too, along with their dinosaur dreams. A world capable of such genocidal indifference didn't deserve its own existence. Walt wanted to watch it wither, to crumble into shit and dirt, fertilizer for a future that would one day crumble itself.
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#5. He hadn't told her to fuck off out of anger, but more out of the conviction that if you don't make a habit of standing up for yourself in the small moments, you'll never be able to do it when the big ones rolled around.
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#6. Was sad to think how quickly things became lost. It was no wonder things were the way they were. Memories, people, your own self. You thought you'd always have them, that you'd be able to draw on them in times of need, but they slipped away like the days, gone before you knew it.
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#7. Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?
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#8. One last question," Sprite said. "Who are you? Special Forces? CIA? Xenobiologist?" "I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft.
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#9. The woman laughed, shoulders bouncing. I think the gods eat suffering. That's why they've put it everywhere you look: so anywhere they go, they'll always be fed.
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#10. Have the Minister's soldiers been on the march?" "Probably. Given that they're soldiers, and marching is what soldiers do, if only to impress their captains.
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#11. What a terrible thing, when what's right is overruled by what's popular,
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#12. Dew. Their feet scuffed the dark sidewalks. Raymond had two moods now. Despair came with no warning, rogue waves of helplessness that sucked him out on a rippling tide. When it receded, he was left with a dry and
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#13. Overconfidence is a strong ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you can't.
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#14. Men are the ones who keep trying to drag the gods down to earth. The gods don't give a damn what we do to ourselves.
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#16. It was, for the most part, your typical large city: a scab of nobles, wealthy merchants, and shipping tycoons crusted over a great messy wound of laborers and peons.
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#17. Sitting out on your own life is the best way to make sure the rest of it's disappointing.
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#18. I wonder what's killed more men over the years. Wild animals? Or masculine taunts?
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#19. Fortunately, when I was in the palace, I got some practice stabbing him in the heart. This time, I was much better at it. And did it ten times instead of once. Then cut off his head." "I always thought the secret of your success was your thoroughness.
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#20. We start off thinking the whole world is about us," Lucy said. "Once you learn how little it cares about you, that's when you stop taking things personal.
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#21. She ran up the hill toward the woods. The moon watched her every step, bathing her in silver suspicion. She ignored it for now. The trees swallowed her up, hiding her
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#23. You think I'm daffy?"
"Don't be offended by a snap judgment. It's true of anyone who cares about squirrels.
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#24. If I had to point to one invention in my lifetime that separated howling barbarism from civilized existence, it would be coffee.
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#26. There was something wrong with human emotions. The good ones left you as fast as a sneeze while the bad ones hung around like bronchitis.
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#27. If emotions were created for social creatures, did they cease to exist as soon as society disappeared?
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#28. Most faiths, he thought, could stand to learn the virtue of keeping their devotion to themselves.
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#29. Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle.
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#30. This was the lesson of the lesser dog: all violence is risk. Even the smallest dog can win if it encourages the strong dogs to take all the risk for themselves.
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#31. Would ask what you want carved on your grave. " "I would like it to say 'Why Do You Care Who Is Buried Here?
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#32. What form of speech is better than a question? A statement is certain. A question is fluid. To make progress, isn't it better to flow than to sit?
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