John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck - Excerpt from The Pearl
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it.
John Steinbeck
- Excerpt from The Pearl
It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.
Slowtyper237
- Meat Mountain
It was three hours past midnight when the words Meat Mountain gripped me, the fetus of a twisted mind. Bread, lettuce, beef, chicken, beef - all together in a manic crescendo of processed meats. When I was done, I wept. God would not forgive me.
Trevor Noah
- Born A Crime
We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Little Prince
But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen.
Martha Simpson of Glastonbury, Conn
- 1985 Lytton Fiction Contest Winner
The countdown stalled at T-minus 69 seconds when Desiree, the first female ape to go up in space, winked at me slyly and pouted her thick, rubbery lips unmistakably - the first of many such advances during what would prove to be the longest, and most memorable, space voyage of my career.
Marc Andreessen
- Excerpt From the Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Victim mentality is a curse in every domain of life, including in our relationship with technology - both unnecessary and self-defeating. We are not victims, we are conquerors. We believe in nature, but we also believe in overcoming nature. We are not primitives, cowering in fear of the lightning bolt. We are the apex predator; the lightning works for us.
Marc Andreessen
- Excerpt from the Techno Optimist Manifesto
Our civilization is built on technology. Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential. For hundreds of years, we properly glorified this - until recently.
Technoblade
- Technoblade 50K Q&A
Technoblade, do you have a GIRLFRIEND? I like how they yell the last word. Um, I don't want to answer that question, but I'll give you a hint by reading the title of the video you commented this on: "50K SUBS! - Survival Games #513."
Jack Handey
- Deep Thoughts
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they would never, ever expect it.
Technoblade
- too poor to afford clickbait pls watch me talk about dogs
I don't understand man. I don't understand. Like I asked people on Twitter, it's like cats, dogs? And everyone that said cats was telling me like: "Less work." And I'm just like: "Is the only reason you guys have cats around so you can have something lazier than you around the house? I don't understand, why?" I'm getting five thousand dislikes from the cat loving community, I don't care man.
Technoblade
- too poor to afford clickbait pls watch me talk about dogs
And the thing about cats is that they do not care if you live or die. Cause they're cats, their only objective in life, from what I've seen is to find your most comfortable chair and sit in it all day long, judging you. And if you like ever walk in front of them they look at you like "Yeah, huh, you think you're in charge? No I'm the cat, I'm in charge, thank you very much."
Technoblade
- Edgy Teenager Talks about the Meaning of Life - Skywars
There's literally nothing to lose by guessing. Sure, on average you'll get a lower score, but who cares if you get a low score? You might as well guess on every problem and have a one in a billion chance at getting a perfect score because then you'll get something amazing. Cause even if you don't guess and you'll statistically do better, who cares? You'll do pretty well but not well enough. You just have to shoot for the stars in every situation.
Technoblade
- The Hypixel Skyblock Experience: Skeletons
As days go by, I continue killing skeletons. I kill them, I wait, and then I kill them again. I don't leave my island anymore. I don't go on any adventures. I just wait, and then I kill skeletons. Is this really what I wanted to do with my life? Stare at my monitor until meaningless numbers increase? Am I enjoying this? When I first made this grinder I thought I was trapping the skeletons. But now, I realize I was only trapping myself.
Technoblade
- You Think You're a Hero? (Abridged)
Let me tell you a story, a story of a man called Theseus. His city-state was in danger and he sent himself forward into enemy lines - he slayed the Minotaur and saved his city. You know what they did to him? They exiled him. He died in disgrace, despised by his people. That's what happens to heroes. The Greeks knew the score. But if you want to be a hero, that's fine. You want to be a hero? THEN DIE LIKE ONE!
Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Whatever, I kept following her down that long corridor. Truly, a long corridor. Turning corners, going up and down short flights of stairs, we must have walked five or six ordinary buildings' worth. We were walking around and around, like in an Escher print. But walk as we might, the surroundings never seemed to change. Marble floors, muffin-white walls, wooden doors with random room numbers. Stainless-steel door knobs. Not a window in sight.
Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Forget genius. It doesn't do much for innocent bystanders. Especially if everyone's going to want a piece of the action. That's why this whole mess happened in the first place. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
