Scott Lynch - Life Quotes

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We were sent here to learn from you!
You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

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You're taking the world awfully personally. Didn't Chains ever tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?
The what?
The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.
What is it?
He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.
I'm just old enough to find that distressingly accurate.
You see? It's universal, said Locke.

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There were difficulties.
Oh, she said, so you're the man whose life develops complications! I've so longed to meet you; the rest of us here in this world have it much too easy, I'm afraid.

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There are only three people in life you can never fool—pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.

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Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
I don't expect life to make sense, he said after a few moments, but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

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When I get this door open, you're dead, Jean!
When you get that door open? I look forward to many long years of life, then.

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