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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 98b3274 | He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| eebe384 | Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak, | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 83cfa85 | Set wasn't interested in ruling the galaxy. Or destroying the Jedi. It sounded like a lot of work. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 84423ea | All soldiers felt the same thing going into battle, whether they admitted it or not: fear. Fear of failure, fear of dying, fear of watching their friends die, fear of being wounded and living out the rest of their days crippled or maimed. The fear was always there, and it would devour you if you let it. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 1b5cc6f | There must only be two, No more and no less | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 68c0460 | Now you know why I told HK-Forty-seven he couldn't come," Revan told T3. "He'd probably try to clear a path through all these 'meatbags' with a flamethrower." | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 4866c93 | If they managed to kill you, then you weren't worthy of serving me," Nyriss explained. "If you killed them, then you proved that they were a waste of resources. Either way, I would be left with the most suitable candidate for the job." | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 301fbd5 | I will continue to study at your feet, Master. I will learn from your wisdom. I will discover your secrets, unlocking them one by one until everything you know--all your knowledge and all your power--is mine. And once you are no longer of use to me, I will destroy you. One day I will surpass you. And on that day I will kill you, Lord Bane. But that day is not today. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| c153109 | Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| ded8abc | The strong always stepped forward; the weak had no choice but to follow. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 11db07a | the strength to survive must come from within. Others will always fail you. Friends, family, fellow soldiers ... in the end, each person must stand alone. When in need, look to the self. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 2fb3bbb | By its very nature, the dark side invites rivalry and strife. This is the greatest strength of the Sith: it culls the weak from our order. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 6e2c8a1 | Killing without reason or gain was a petty pleasure of sadistic fools. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 350d462 | Fear itself is born out of misunderstanding the true nature of reality. | Matthew Bortolin | ||
| 371f66c | you must understand that not even the Jedi know all there is to be known about the Force; no mortal mind can. We speak of the as someone ignorant of gravity might say it is the will of a river to flow to the ocean; it is a metaphor that describes our ignorance. The simple truth - if any truth is ever simple - is that we do not truly know what the will of the Force may be. We can know. It is so far beyond our limited understanding that w.. | ignorance jedi metaphor mystery obi-wan-kenobi old-ben simple-truth surrender-to-mystery the-force the-will-of-the-force truth | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| 20c86f4 | I knew an Ethersworn monk once, who made it a practice to believe six impossible things before breakfast; if he could manage only five, he stayed in bed. | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 018e9b3 | Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like D.. | pain self-discovery self-improvement self-realization strength suffering | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| 07c8f7e | Mace flipped up a thumb. "You think being armed and ruthless means you can do whatever you want." He folded his thumb and flipped up his forefinger. "You think nobody will stand up to you when they're naked." He folded that one again and flipped up the next. "And you think you're going to look inside my bag." | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 31fe026 | universe." Tan'elKoth's tone remained dry and precise, but his face grew ever more grim. "Chambaraya is, one might say, a smaller knot of mind within the Worldmind: what the elves call T'nnalldion. Through Faith, the Bog can get its corporate fingers into that knot, unbind it, and tie it again in their own image." Avery shook her head blankly, uncomprehending. Tan'elKoth's expression was bleak as an open grave. "They'll make of it a world l.. | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| cc4ff34 | Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies. | lies truth | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| 51a2284 | In my dreams, I always do it right. | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 3e49256 | Until the possible becomes actual, it is only a distraction. Be mindful of what is, not what might be. | star-wars | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| 96d79b4 | What distinguishes a flower from a weed is only--and exactly--this: the choice of the gardener | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 08d3e13 | The defining line from Frank Herbert's Dune argues that the mystery of life "is not a question to be answered but a reality to be experienced." My fantasy offers the opposite. Nothing would be experienced. Nothing would feel new or unknown or jarring. It's a fantasy for people who want to solve life's mysteries without having to do the work." | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| b94e110 | In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 08f059b | Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water). | nostalgia time | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 6df0c1c | My personal war against the so-called "soccer menace" probably reached its peak in 1993, when I was nearly fired from a college newspaper for suggesting that soccer was the reason thousands of Brazilians are annually killed at Quiet Riot concerts in Rio de Janeiro, a statement that is--admittedly--only half true. A few weeks after the publication of said piece, a petition to have me removed as the newspaper's sports editor was circulated by.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 7f41c24 | Part of the reason forward-thinking media networks like Twitter succeed is because people3 want to believe that every immaterial thing they do is pertinent by default; it's interesting because it happened to them, which translates as interesting to all. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| fa773e8 | In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 757d5af | She said to me, "How is it going, Mitch?" I said, "Okay." But this is not really true, because she did not specify what "it" was and I did not immediately assume "it" referred to any preexisting situation in my life. I'm sure she didn't have any idea what "it" was either. She just said, "How is it going, Mitch," because she wanted to say something aloud in public. Basically, she asked a question she didn't understand, and I gave an affirmat.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 847f377 | I also need to prepare myself for the inevitability of utter boredom: Very often, single people don't do shit. They do nothing, all night long. They sit in a recliner and watch TV. I've probably watched more television than anyone you've ever met, and I don't even own one. Terrible shows, good shows, Golf tournaments in Cancun. C-SPAN. Hours of Oprah. Law and Order. Lonely people love Law and Order, for whatever reason. They prefer the stra.. | lonely-people novel visible-man | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 392baed | I've obliterated three days trying to come up with an elegant way to write what I'm about to write, but I think the least elegant way is probably best: I like Kanye West. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 6425d63 | Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 84b3114 | People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or--at the very least--why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct." | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 184905b | They [dolphins] are my least favorite member of the animal kingdom. Everyone seems to think dolphins are cute and "intelligent," but they're best described as ugly and impractical. I don't want to come across as insensitive, but show me a person whose intelligence equates to that of a dolphin and I will show you a fucking retard." | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 83fb858 | Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I'm not saying that the truth doesn't matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| faca5ed | The only modern narrative that handles the conundrum semi-successfully is Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko, where schizophrenic heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal uses a portal to move back in time twelve days, thereby allowing himself to die in an accident he had previously avoided. By removing himself from the equation, he never meets his new girlfriend, which keeps her from dying in a car accident that was his fault. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 20ee1fa | Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 57b9e7f | But regardless of the direction you move, the central problem is still there: Why do it? What's the best reason for exploding the parameters of reality? With the possible exception of eating a dinosaur, I don't think there is one. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8e64f21 | It starts from the premise that black connotes evil and death in all cultures and hopes to figure out if "these associations influence people's behavior in important ways. For example, does wearing black clothing lead both the wearer and others to perceive him or her as more evil and aggressive? More importantly, does it lead the wearer to actually act more aggressive?" | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 2bef26f | According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel--it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 9b41d0d | If I were an adult, I would be drinking coffee; as it is, I'm drinking Mountain Dew. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 45a575d | This is a consistent theme in stories about traveling to the future: Things are always worse when you get there. And I suspect this is because the kind of writer who's intrigued by the notion of moving forward in time can't see beyond their own pessimism about being alive. People who want to travel through time are both (a) unhappy and (b) unwilling to compromise anything about who they are. They would rather change every element of society.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| a141744 | Nothing is completely authentic. Even the guys who kill themselves are partially acting. | Chuck Klosterman |