"You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?" said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. "It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it's even possible to find out."
She took a deep breath. "It's all the people who never get to know what it is they can really be. It's all the wasted chances."
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
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‘It’s got him,’ said Gaspode quietly. ‘Got him worse than anyone, I reckon.’
‘What has? How can you tell?’ Victor hissed.
‘Partly a’cos of subtle signs what you don’t seem to be ablter recognize,’ said Gaspode, ‘and partly a’cos he’s actin’ like a complete twerp, really.’
Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures
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"Remember," he said, "I'm looking for Victor Tungelbend and I'm going to make him a star. If anyone sees him, you must tell him." [...]
He strode back to the door.
After he had gone the chattering flowed back like a tide.
"Make him a star? What'd he want a star for?"
"I didn't know you could make stars...I thought they were like, you know, stuck to the sky..."
"I think he meant make him a star. You know, him himself. Turn him into a star."
"How can you make anyone into a star?"
"I dunno. I suppose you compress them right up small and they burst into this mass of flaming hydrogen?"
"Good grief."
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
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"we write our prayers on a little bomb, kiss it on the face and send it to god"
marilyn manson — "the death song"
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"If they kill you on their TV, you're a martyr and a lamb of god"
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