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"For my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere! Yes, even between the land and the ship."

""Profanity is more necessary to me than is immunity from colds." - Mark Twain in a Letter to Orion Clemens, 14 May 1877

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

^^^
"Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen." - Woody Guthrie

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

-Kurt Vonnegut.

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." - KJV Proverbs 16:18/19

Any snake wishing to remain here in Ireland, please raise your hand.

-St. Patrick

"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." -Kurt Vonnegut

"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees." -Douglas Adams

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." -Anatole France

"She is pinned under the corpse of a man, but she is still alive!" - Kurt Vonnegut (Bluebeard, pg 26)

" The spirit of wrath and not the words -- is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk."
Mark Twain in "Following the Equator"

Classic

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."

The Road
Cormac McCarthy

That sounds very Pratchett.

douglas adams, I believe.

^ Yes it is. It's what brought me to the tree one, because I knew I had it scribblings somewhere...which led to looking at them.

Trees are great listeners. They hardly ever talk back.

FEAR has 3 meanings-
*Forget Everything And Run
*Fear Everything, Always Resist
*Face Evil, Ascend Righteously
the choice is yours.

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
-Mark Twain: