Matt Ruff Quotes

#1. I'm sayng people can be real creative when it comes to ducking resposibility"
Mr Fox, talking about Mr Jeckyl & Mr Hyde

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#2. Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

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#3. But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don't get mad.

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#4. He's going to summon up one of the Elder Klansmen.

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#5. That's the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you're helpless to help him. Nothing worse than that. Nothing worse.

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#6. Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

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#7. I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a father, you do tend to develop an irreverent streak. Kinda goes with the territory. And Dad was as bad as I am, really .

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#8. Invoking the name of Al Gaddafi cured my blue screen of death

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#9. Described the Internet as a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd's son, spewing bile at both ends

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#10. Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death ...

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#11. As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses ...

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#12. I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility. You

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#13. To acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it."
Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order

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