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• In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mind, Dying, Together

  J. G. Ballard (2017). “Crash: The Collector’s Edition”, p.38, HarperCollins UK

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• My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

  Madeline Miller

  Earthquakes, Mind, Wish

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.278, A&C Black

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• That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Expectations, Humanity

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• Of all the apocalypses in all the world - she had walked into his.

  Mari Mancusi

  World

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• I’m too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn’t even had his first date yet. He’d only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.’ – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Smart, Kissing, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.8, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

  Neal Shusterman

  World, Deeds, Judgment

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• They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
  Tell me when do we stop it?
  Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
  Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Cold Rain, Album: Gutter Rainbows

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• There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.

  Larissa Ione

  Powerful, Drawing, Meat

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• How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

  Crooked i

  Rap, Hip Hop, Atomic Bomb

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• Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Parent, Fatherhood

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• For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.

  Brady Udall

  Phones, Secret, Phone Calls

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• I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

  Colson Whitehead

  Children, Technology, Clouds

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• In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

  Stewart Brand

  Good Friend, Hard Times, Survival

  "The Whole Earth Epilog: Access To Tools". Book by Stewart Brand, 1974.

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• The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Military, Army, Numbers

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.99, Penguin

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• Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Love Is, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Roaming

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• Who is there with you?" "Raphael" Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in three hours. Where are you?" "I said it's nothing major." "Bullshit. You wouldn't work with Raphael unless the Apocalypse was imminent and that was the only way to prevent it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Atlanta, Voice, Bullshit

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Mourns: A Companion Novella to Magic Strikes: A Penguin eSpecial from Berkley”, p.23, Penguin

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• You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger at me. “Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?” “Um—” “And I’ll never be bored,” Neith continued, “since I’m also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!” I had no reply, as I wasn’t sure what macramé was.

  Rick Riordan

  Land, Bored, Tree

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• CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Cheer, School

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, October 3, 2017.

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• And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

  Aldous Huxley

  Space, Watches, Answers

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell”, p.23, Random House

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• Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Media, Literature

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• You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.

  Melissa Bank

  Letting Go, Tired, Mean

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.151, Penguin

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• I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

  Michael Rooker

  Needs, Survived

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• As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.

  Matt Ruff

  Son, Ministers, Protestants

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• I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Hate, Color, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Nov 15, 2011

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• If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

  Alex Garland

  Eye, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Sergeant Farrell". "28 Days Later...", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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