Hannu Quotes

#1. This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted ... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.

Amal El-Mohtar

#2. The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

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#3. It feels like trying to juggle eight-side Rubik's cubes while trying to solve them at the same time. And every time I drop one, God kills a billion kittens.

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#4. We have received a communication from Jean le Flambeur. He claims that in precisely 57 minutes, he is going to steal a ring of Saturn.

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#5. While I'm always up for a good scrap, and don't even mind racking up a few bumps and bruises along the way, I'm not really the martyr type. I have sensitive skin and there's nothing that irritates more than nails being driven through it.

Tim Marquitz

#6. I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.

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#7. It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

Garrison Keillor

#8. The one by L. Ron Hubbard ... I'm not in favor of his religion by any means, but he wrote a book called Battlefield Earth that was a very fun science fiction book.

Mitt Romney

#9. The world's thoughts are games that are played. They aren't true, but they are agreements of the ways to think and act. The presently dominant thoughts are all built for the needs of maintaining hierarchical power.

Hannu

#10. Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.

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#11. Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

Charles Baudelaire

#12. The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.

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#13. Deep learning still comes from approximately ten thousand hours of work on any given subject.

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#14. Alone on the timeless beach, Josephine Pellegrini finds herself disappointed by the end of the world.

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#15. A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one's wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.

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#16. In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.

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#17. Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

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#18. I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.

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#19. There is no greater love than a maker's for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined.

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#20. You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

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#21. There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then

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#22. Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

J. Edgar Hoover

#23. there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A

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#24. Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.

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#25. People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

Francis Schaeffer

#26. How about," Jane suggested, "some dumb question as to what a refinery does?" "Good idea," fired back Col. "What does a refinery do?" Connie asked. Anneena and Col groaned.

Julia Golding

#27. I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.

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#28. If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

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#29. God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

Tullian Tchividjian

#30. When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. God . . . will You write my love story? Will You write my life story? I just don't believe I can do it on my own. My heart will shatter into a million pieces long before I get it right.

Shantelle Mary Hannu

#32. Emma, your granddad's on the line," says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. "Something about the night bus and he'll never trust you again?

Sophie Kinsella

#33. I don't care what your Oort woman wants you to steal for her," she says. "You already did your worst. You stole what could have been. From me and from yourself. And you can never have it back.

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#34. The thief sighs. 'Perhaps. After that, she started talking about this ancient legend they have, about a creature called the Sleeper with a billion hit points, and after it was finally killed by a coalition of a thousand guilds, it dropped a small rusty dagger.

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#35. This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

Garth Stein