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Quotes I Enjoy

"People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people."
-V from V for Vendetta

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
-Robert A. Heinlein

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
-Kurt Vonnegut

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
-Isaac Asimov

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
-Isaac Asimov

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
-David Friedman

"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."
-Isaac Asimov

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
-Jessamyn West

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
-George S. Patton

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
-Bertrand Russell

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
-Ronald Reagan

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
-Carl Sagan

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
-Isaac Asimov

"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."
-Robert A. Heinlein

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Renor Aphyon Report | 12/09/2011 11:42 pm: <Kicks in.> We're bringing the gang back! emotion_dowant
Kurai Ryus Takai Report | 10/19/2010 7:23 pm: Do you even remember me in the slightest?
SnowLeopard1114 Report | 09/17/2010 4:27 pm: hey im interested in the archangel's blade could we possibly work something out? sweatdrop
Kurai Ryus Takai Report | 09/09/2010 4:23 pm: Alright thanks.
Kurai Ryus Takai Report | 09/09/2010 4:08 pm: If you will. Tell Dakoda that he shouldn't buy Linkin Park's new album... It's worthless. (and if he wants to b***h to me about it, tell him to text me.)
Kurai Ryus Takai Report | 08/31/2010 8:50 pm: I see.
Yeah that game is hell on the player. I've almost managed to beat the game. (maybe 12 of 16 bosses) Only to play it again, to get the rest of the trophies for it.
Kurai Ryus Takai Report | 08/31/2010 5:09 pm: Do you still play Demon's Souls?
Kurai Ryus Takai Report | 08/15/2010 8:47 pm: I think I know what you're gonna say, but I might as well ask. How is it interesting?
Plain Old shyguy16 Report | 07/28/2010 4:35 pm: So troublesome... JK smile Just got through with Dakotas pm. Apparently, you to want me to do some programming. I do have to warn you that I don't know all that much. I know barely enough to make this work... all I need to be able to do is to view a program in raw code, and write a program on the computer without it crashing.
sword 1119 Report | 07/14/2010 10:51 pm: That's why you don't wear flipflops when shooting... or loose fitting clothing, as hot brass can go down a shirt quite easily.

That's good for your first time... if it is. I know how to shoot a rifle well, but no handguns yet.

And yeah, indoor ranges make everything sound loud. Were you wearing earmuffs/ earbuds?

More and More Quotes

“History is written by the victors.”
- Winston Churchill

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
- Herbert Bayard Swope

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
- Mahatma Gandhi

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."
- Muhammad Ali

"The whole principle of censorship is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak."
- Robert A. Heinlen

"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves."
- Robert Anton Wilson

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Writing, and Literature in General

I love the written word. As simple as that. But I do not enjoy a lot of Authors, strangely.

I'm fond of the fantastical writing that borders the logical. Terry Pratchett and Steven Brust are the two that come to mind. Both highly different authors, both in my top favorites, and both able to make me laugh while giving serious thought to things they raise in a not so serious manner.
I see both the story and the analysis of the human mind and culture going on, and the way I perceive them, it is made obvious they have their own opinions, but easily give you room to make your own without feeling stifled. And then I burst into laughter because the Sapient Pearwood chest known simply as 'the Luggage' is back, or because a smart-a** psychically enabled winged reptile is jibbing the main character about how drunk he was.
Simply put, I suppose, it is that I like being able to draw my own conclusions while being entertained and whisked away to a fantasy world. I really don't like a lot of popular literature, but that is simply my own tastes. I'd rather pick up the 'too sensitive and outlandish for public schools' Kurt Vonnegut than almost any of the 'Fantasy' and 'Science Fiction' Authors around now. Or a new, excellent, and almost assuredly small career author who has trouble finding anyone willing to look at his manuscript because it 'might be too offensive'.
But those are merely my preferences. I don't like Stephenie Meyer or her writing style, it feels cut and dry, and I don't like how she develops characters. But that doesn't mean I hate her. I'll avoid reading her works and buying into the franchise it has spawned, but I'm not about to bash her. I've got nasty, scathing comments crawling around in my head, sure, but I'm not going to voice them. She got published. She hit the right target at the right time. I respect that luck, skill, and any combination of the aforementioned. I mean, at the same time I say those things about her, I'm thinking it about a lot of authors.

Behind the Username

I chose Abyss the Broken as my username over a year ago, though I've been on this site longer than this account lets on to.

Abyss is an entity in my writings, though I'm not going to explain more than that. Since I remodeled 'him' (I use gender loosely when referring to Abyss), and the entire universe 'he' deals in, I've not used 'him' or any others dealing with 'him' in roleplaying.