Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
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Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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Who can control his fate?
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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It’s funny how one summer can change everything.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
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I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
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I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.
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I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it's like they're trying to pretend it's not there.
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I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
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Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are