#pun

That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts… ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#cyberpunk #materialism #meaning #plastic-surgery #reality

Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5 ↗

— Ridley Pearson

#humor #puns #humor

Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits. ↗

— G.D. Falksen

#sicence-fiction #steampunk #inspirational

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#love #power #punishment #love

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#puns #life

Life [had] replaced logic. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life-of-meaning #raskolnikov #resurrection #life

Making the decision to leave Valve strikes me as right up there with turning down the throne to Narnia, but then call me an idealist, and I guess I probably wouldn't want to spend my whole life making new hats for Team Fortress 2 either. ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

#zero-punctuation #life

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#irony #justice #punishment #life

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#cancer #life-saver #punk-rock #saved-my-life #life

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama ↗

— Gail Carriger

#love