Elizabeth Bear Quotes
The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.
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Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest...if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers. Then you'll know you're on to something!
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I won't be waitin' any more cause I know Baby, baby I was made for you
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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
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I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.
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The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
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The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
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I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
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I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.
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Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
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I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.
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Donde se lamentan todos, no se oyen lamentos.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.
