Quotes
Authors
Charles Stross

"I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos â€“ in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever â€“ was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives Iâ€™ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And Iâ€™m keeping the last shell for myself."

Source : "The Fuller Memorandum (The Laundry Files, Book 3)". Book by Charles Stross, July 1, 2010.

Charles Stross

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“I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.”
“To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.”
“We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.”
“Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.”
“All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.”
“I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.”
“You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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