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Mia Wallace: "Pretty smart."
Vincent Vega: "Yeah, I got my moments."

(Pulp Fiction)

Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to become comfortable?
-- Mia (Pulp Fiction)

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense, right?

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go home and have a heart attack"
-- Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)

Fanfiction is just fixing things in post-post-production

Subduction leads to orogeny!

"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
(Stargate SG-1)

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
-- Kelvin Throop III

Headline: Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One

I'm not a perfectionist. That would be a character flaw.

"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."
-- Mark Twain

Clique: A group of insiders who greet outsiders with their backsides; a closed circle of asses.
(Cynic's Dictionary)

Sniglet, n: Any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

Language and its absurd conjunctions;
Constellations and crustaceans rhyme.

Math Anxiety: An intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 mph.
(Cynic's Dictionary)

I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
-- Flannery O'Connor

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
-- Nadine Gordimer ("Selecting my Stories")

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
-- Kahlil Gibran

I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks.
-- Zaffel

Quality Of Life: What an industrialized nation is said to offer when enough of its citizens are suffering from terminal stress.
(Cynic's Dictionary)

War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.
-- Chaz Bufe (The Devil's Dictionaries ("American Heretic's Dictionary" section))

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
-- Goethe

On an American Airlines package of nuts: Instructions: Open package, eat nuts.

Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
-- Ambrose Bierce ("The Devil's Dictionary")

If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?

Peace, n: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
-- Ambrose Bierce ("The Devil's Dictionary")