From cc0a9ee9dd7a1327f09dc8f5452cfb1525ffcea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:45:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add more quotes --- signature_stuff/quote.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 674f521..c8302fc 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -615,3 +615,25 @@ fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon behind the computer has something significant to say. -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33 +% +This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic + -- Terry Pratchett +% +Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or +derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But +the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer +to achieve immortality by not dying. + -- Terry Pratchet _The Color of Magic_ +% +Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their +faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord +Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a +12-bore repeater and a box of cartridges. + -- Terry Pratchet _Mort_ +% +He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said +that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He +was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little +begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as +if he were somehow living a posthumous life. + -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_ -- 2.39.2