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  • #121
    Toba Beta
    “When you're young, you say what you feel.
    When you're adult, you speak what you think.
    When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: adult, feel, listen, old, think, young
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  • #122
    Toba Beta
    “Pride is the mother of arrogance.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: arrogance, pride
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  • #123
    Toba Beta
    “Great sex is a natural drug.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: cure, life, natural, sex
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  • #124
    Toba Beta
    “If you believe in the idea of true friends,
    then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: no-true-friend, world
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  • #125
    Toba Beta
    “When you feel life at crossroads,
    you need higher perspective view.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: crossroads, higher, learning, lesson, perspective, view, wisdom
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  • #126
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: chess, daring, ideas
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  • #127
    Marcel Duchamp
    “All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: atheism, chess, god, language, life, religion, society
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  • #128
    Caroline Stevermer
    “How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
    ― Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
    tags: chess, chocolate-pot, confusion, games, rules
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  • #129
    Stacia Kane
    “You know I do, aye? Love you right, Chessiebomb.”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
    tags: terrible
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  • #130
    Stacia Kane
    “People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
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  • #131
    Stacia Kane
    “But she never thought about the way Terrible looked, at least not that way. He hadn’t been ugly to her for months; he’d gone from just being a face she was familiar with to being a face she loved to look at, a face that made her….happy. Who gave a shit what anyone else saw when they looked at him, when they saw the crooked, many times broken nose, or the scars, or the jutting brow or thick jaw and heavy muttonchops? She knew what she saw, and that was all that mattered. Knew what was behind those hard dark eyes, and wanted it more than anything.”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
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  • #132
    Stacia Kane
    “Honesty was for those who could afford it, like heating or electricity or a conscience.”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
    tags: stacia-kane
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  • #133
    Stacia Kane
    “Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure she had a pen in her bag. Little lies, mostly. Insignificant. Of course there were big ones there, too, like telling herself that she was more than just a junkie who got lucky enough to possess a talent not everyone had. That she was alone by choice and that she was not terrified of other people because they couldn’t be trusted, because they carried filth in their minds and pain in their hands and they would smear both all over her given half the chance.”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
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  • #134
    Stacia Kane
    “She knew what she saw, and that was all that mattered. Knew what was behind those hard dark eyes, and wanted it more than anything.”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
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  • #135
    Stacia Kane
    “You let people into your life and you ended up getting hurt. Or hurting them. Either way, the road to pain was paved with other people, and she wanted no part of it anymore”
    ― Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts
    tags: stacia-kane
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  • #136
    Lewis Carroll
    “and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
    I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: chess, game
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  • #137
    Stacia Kane
    “You ain’t know nothing,” a man scoffed. “How I’m supposed to trust some junkie Churchwitch-”

    The words sliced through her like razor-sharp fangs. Her face flooded with shame, so hot she imagined it steamed in the icy air. At least it wasn’t difficult to identify the speaker. All she had to do was look for the man with Terrible’s fist locked around his neck.

    “Ain’t think I hear you right,” Terrible said in a calm, quiet voice. “Wanna louden up?” The man shook his head His eyes bulged. He looked like a bug, with his hands clenching into tiny useless fists. “You sure? You got else to say, you best say it now, instead of later. Now we got us watchers. Later might not be true, dig?” The man dug.”
    ― Stacia Kane, Unholy Magic
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  • #138
    Walter Tevis
    “Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”
    ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
    tags: chess, elizabeth-harmon, grandmaster, world-champion
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  • #139
    Susan Cain
    “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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  • #140
    Toba Beta
    “To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
    But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: dream, future, life, past, present
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  • #141
    Toba Beta
    “Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends.
    I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: forgive, hurt, kill, provoke
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  • #142
    Toba Beta
    “You can trust bad liars.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: heart, honest, pretending
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  • #143
    Toba Beta
    “If you hate difference, you'll be bored to death.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: change-happens, difference
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  • #144
    Toba Beta
    “Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.
    Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: comment, easy, experience, greatness, observe, share
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  • #145
    Toba Beta
    “Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.
    That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: arrogant, better, confident, pity, reason
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  • #146
    Toba Beta
    “It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
    But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: fact, falsify, fucked-up, lie, truth
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  • #147
    Toba Beta
    “Sincerity increases willingness to care.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: care, sincerity, willingness
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  • #148
    Toba Beta
    “It feels so bitter getting a kiss for a betrayal.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: betrayal, bitter
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  • #149
    Toba Beta
    “Opportunists seek for a chance.
    Entrepreneurs make new chances.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: chance, entrepreneur, opportunity
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  • #150
    Toba Beta
    “When sinners judge, God takes the stand.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: judge, sin, witness
    35 likes



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