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“[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.”

— Hal Clement

“[H]e could feel his unshakable enemy, depression, blooming in him like a pernicious flower that could never quite be ripped out.”

— Andrea Speed

“[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine…

— Max Brooks

“[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds…

— George S. Clason

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”

— Bertrand Russell

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their…

— Glen David Gold

“We don’t want any—” he began, and ought to have chosen his words better, because they were his epitaph. It”

— Terry Pratchett

“He abhorred people who said things that hadn’t been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“Eventually, his courage expended itself upon these objections. The debates drained him of his fire.”

— Stephen Crane

“To allow a human being to drown because you are busy telling God how much you care about Him and His world is the…

— Benjamin Blech