“Let's have a good clean three-legged death race.”

— Rick Riordan, book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

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American writer 1964

John Brunner The Shockwave Rider

Bk. 1, Ch. "The Number You Have Reached"
The Shockwave Rider (1975)

“And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 276)

“When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)

“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
Context: I will keep faith with death in my heart, yet will remember that faith with death and the dead is only wickedness and dark voluptuousness and enmity against humankind, if it is given power over our thought and contemplation. For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. And with that, I wake up.