Think Anne, THINK!

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood

His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant!
- Rudy Rucker

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire

With bloody hands, I say good-bye.
- Frank Miller

Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven Meretzky

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly

I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.
- Stephen Baxter

1940: Young Hitler! Such a cantor!
- Michael Moorcock

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card

Tick tock tick tock tick tick.
- Neal Stephenson

(Source: ridingwithstrangers)

• She is attractive, of course, but is that her chief asset? (Try to imagine her ten years from today.)
• Do you want her because she is popular–because other men have wanted her? (Don’t be a copy-cat!)
• Could you spend seven consecutive evenings in her company without being bored? (If the answer is affirmative, it is a good sign.)
• Do you have similar tastes in most things?
• Is she a good sport?
• Is she reasonably healthy?
• Is she a flirt? Does she make you jealous? (Decide whether you can stand the strain; your jealously will persist until you grow indifferent.)
• Are you constantly irritated by some small mannerism of hers? (You can’t be terribly in love.)
• Does she tell lies? Do you mind?
• Is she a nag?
• Is she quarrelsome? (The Bible warns, “It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”)
• Is she hard on other people? (Don’t judge by her behavior to you.)
• Is she trying to reform you? How do you feel about being reformed?
• Has she tried to boss you? (Maybe you need a boss.)
• Would she put up with all your faults if she knew them?
• When you quarrel, who capitulates first? (A combination of two stubborn mules is bad.)
• Do you agree on children, or a career, or both? (Better settle this beforehand.)
• Does she expect you to support her in a definite style? Could you count on her cooperation in hard times? Would she go to work if necessary?
• Will she help you get ahead? Or will she pull you away from your work?
• Can she handle money?
• If you marry her, will you also be marrying her family?
• Does she let you get around to see your old pals? (If you have been too infatuated to notice, make it a point of finding out.)
• Are you proud to present her to your friends? (If not, reconsider.)
• Do you hope to reform her? (Give up the idea. People change, but not according to plan.)
• Do you know her faults? Are you willing to live with them?
• Do you still think her perfect? (You’re wrong, of course, but marry!)

The Art of Manliness

(Source: nevver)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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