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1 " So, this is how the world ends, eh? Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a disgusting gurgling sound, he thought. "
― Tom B. Night , Mind Painter
2 " I used to wish I’d have nightmares—what a pleasure it would have been to wake up. If all your dreams are terrifying, reality actually becomes something to look forward to. "
3 " A society’s technological dependence increases exponentially over time, as does its helplessness when deprived of it. "
4 " Chad was a twenty-six-year-old former developer of software used to develop more advanced software. He was now unemployed. "
5 " There was no need to burn our ships upon arrival, like the explorers of old, to ensure the crew's dedication to the mission. Instead, we'd burned our home. "
6 " Tragically ironic, isn't it? How nuclear weapons represent both our species' mastery over the very foundations of nature, as well as our utter inability to master our most primitive instincts. "
7 " The electrified gas creating these vibrant displays was a distinct and oft-forgotten fourth phase of matter—plasma—that comprised more of the universe than all but matter's fifth phase: dark. "
8 " The story of Noah’s Ark, if you’re familiar, left out the part where the animal kingdom is repopulated entirely through rampant incest. "
9 " The lights went down in the city, an artificial sun shining on the bay. "
10 " There's nothing quite so terrifying as being unsure of your own sanity. All other concerns are downstream. "
11 " There were many slippery slopes to nihilism in this new world, and the higher up you were the easier it was to fall down one of them. "
12 " He'd been younger then, when sex meant both nothing and everything. "
13 " With a fixed amount of matter and energy in the universe, everything is a zero-sum game on some level. "
14 " ...life is a war we all lose in the end, but every day is a battle, and you can sure as hell win some of those. "
15 " But the surest way to live a worthwhile, meaningful life was to have already done so, those moments etched forever into the fabric of spacetime. "
16 " A not-so-subtle reminder that anyone can lose everything at any time, though few think it will happen to them and none get the chance to realize it did when it does. "
17 " …a true utopia would have a one hundred percent suicide rate, where everyone dies precisely when and how they wish. "
18 " A fate worse than death, in that it also included death at the end. "
19 " How spectacularly things shine when viewed from the darkness... "
20 " Like no small number of wealthy people he'd taken up an antiquated form of transportation as a hobby. "
