Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
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Color returned to the world, cone time replaced rod time.
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Listen to yourself, hear your own footsteps, your breaths, your heartbeats, oh, how many rhythms you make as you come and go! you are an orchestra.
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"You promised you would never run away from me again,” she said. “I did promise that,” he said. “And I don’t remember you promising not to destroy my life’s work. So you have me there.
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Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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“Um, yeah,” Laurence said. “Good choice.” Now she was checking out Laurence’s wrist. “Hey. That’s a two-second time machine, isn’t it?” “Um, yeah,” Laurence said. “Cool. I have one too.” She showed him.
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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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“No,” the bird said. “Please! Don’t lock me up. I would prefer you just kill me now.
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On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly aware of magical everything is: the holodeck, the warp drive. It's possible that with wormholes we might eventually be able to do something like that. But the laws of physics are pretty unforgiving.
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If Patricia closed her eyes and breathed deeply, she could imagine the people unloading wooden foil-lined crates stamped with names of cities like Marrakesh and Bombay.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget all the stupid things I say as soon as I’ve finished saying them.
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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire
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“We’re lost in the woods,” Patricia said with a shiver. “I’m probably going to be eaten by a bear.
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These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.
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Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.
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Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.