var numOfQuotes = 67;
function quote() {
var quote = new Array(numOfQuotes + 1);
quote[0]="The fellow is bereft and possibly violent.";
quote[1]="Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic";
quote[2]="A strange abstract law that Pandelume termed 'Mathematics'";
quote[3]="Embelyon was lost, renounced. And T'sais wept.";
quote[4]="May Kraan preserve their living brains in acid!";
quote[5]="Thus in the dark of the night the spell of Javanne the witch was circumvented and nullified.";
quote[6]="My brain is whole! - I see the world!";
quote[7]="And souls go thrilling up like bubbles in a beaker of mead!";
quote[8]="I am Liane the Wayfarer. Peril goes with me.";
quote[9]="At his elbow a voice said, \'I am Chun the Unavoidable.\'";
quote[10]="Mincing murder, extravagant debauchery, while Earth passes its last hour.";
quote[11]="The vapid mannerisms of pale people, using up their lives.";
quote[12]="Thus and so.";
quote[13]="The city dissolved into turbulence - the result of a freak religious hysteria.";
quote[14]="Whom does a Raider raid?";
quote[15]="You should practice optimism.";
quote[16]="Why do squares have more sides than triangles?";
quote[17]="How will we see when the sun goes out?";
quote[18]="Do flowers grow under the ocean?";
quote[19]="Do stars hiss and sizzle when rain comes by night?";
quote[20]="The void in his mind athrob for the soothing pressure of knowledge.";
quote[21]="I am Guyal of Sfere, by the River Scaum in Ascolais.";
quote[22]="I am forced to believe you guilty of impertinence, impiety, disregard and impudicity.";
quote[23]="I must order you secured, contained, pent, incarcerated and confined.";
quote[24]="Go, I exhort; go I command; go, go, go!";
quote[25]="My eye went to you like the nectar moth flits to jacynth.";
quote[26]="It is but the diseased effort of an elder artist.";
quote[27]="Go, else I loose the actinics.";
quote[28]="My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.";
quote[29]="Baton, said Kerlin, perform thy utmost intent.";
quote[30]="We go to the image expander; there we will explode the ghost to the macroid dimension.";
quote[31]="Sixty bobbins: Blikdak was no more.";
quote[32]="He had known many vicissitudes, gaining therefrom a suppleness, a fine disposition, a mastery of both bravado and stealth";
quote[33]="My talismans are not obviously useless.";
quote[34]="I am a man of resource, but not insensate recklessness.";
quote[35]="Have no fear, declared Cugel, my word is my bond.";
quote[36]="Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.";
quote[37]="Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?";
quote[38]="My name is of no consequence. You may address me as \'Exalted\'.";
quote[39]="She contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious postion, then another.";
quote[40]="I become drunk as circumstances dictate.";
quote[41]="A doomed man needs no such elegant footwear.";
quote[42]="Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.";
quote[43]="Only yesterday Dadio Fessadil used a nineteen-guage freezing-bar to groove the bead of a small inverted quatrefoil.";
quote[44]="Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.";
quote[45]="I envision the usual period as a rubble-gatherer, before he is entrusted with tool-sharpening and preliminary excavation.";
quote[46]="First you are swathed head to foot in the intestines of fresh killed owls.";
quote[47]="It is an unthinkable discrepancy that fifty-four men should consume the food intended for fifty-three.";
quote[48]="The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?";
quote[49]="The wrong that has been committed demands a counter act to validate the Law of Equipoise.";
quote[50]="Today occurred the concatenation; the \'creature\' as you call it, pervolved upon itself; in your idiotic malice you devoured it.";
quote[51]="It expresses the symbollic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALLITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratunjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities.";
quote[52]="Perhaps you will accept this sum to spare me the effort of carrying it?";
quote[53]="Gid: hybrid of man, gargoyle, whorl, leaping insect.";
quote[54]="Grue: man, ocular, the unusual hoon.";
quote[55]="For a single terce you may own a long-necked big-bellied creature of astounding voracity.";
quote[56]="We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any.";
quote[57]="We worship the inexorable god known as Dangott. Strangers are automatically heretics, and so are fed to the sacred apes.";
quote[58]="I am Cugel: like yourself, a seeker after enlightenment,";
quote[59]="ZARAIDES THE WIZARD
His Work-book: Beware!";
quote[60]="The Law of Equivalences has been disturbed; and I must contrive a reciprocity.";
quote[61]="Does Zaraides the Sage fear to identify himself with the casue of justice? Does he blink and draw aside from one so timid and vacillating as Iucounu? In a word - yes, said Zaraides.";
quote[62]="All is mutablitity, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.";
quote[63]="How was one to reason with a magician not only droll and irascible, but also bereft?";
quote[64]="By and large Cugel was disappointed by what seemed a lack of innate competence.";
quote[65]="I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.";
quote[66]="So now, be off! Or I inflict upon you the Spell of the Macroid Toe, whereupon the signalized member swells to the proportions of a house.";
quote[67]="Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.";
indxOfQuote = rndInteger();
strQuote = quote[indxOfQuote];
return strQuote + "
- from the Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance";
}
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}
return rndNumber;
}