Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show.
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Even among humans, self-awareness has gradations.
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.
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You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
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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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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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“What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.
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I think that the most basic thing of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel.
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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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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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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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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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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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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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“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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And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now.
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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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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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Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?