Scott Westerfeld Quotes
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.
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Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
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But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
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I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
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I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.
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Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
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We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.
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When the house lights go down and the crowd goes wild, and then when you hear the applause at the end, it's incredible.
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No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.
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If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.
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Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.
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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
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I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.
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Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.
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For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.
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...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
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A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.