Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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That she saw through this ploy did not prevent it from working perfectly.
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"That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
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Greatest natural disaster in America’s history. The storm’s supermassive fetch, hurling the already-swollen ocean onto land. High winds and twenty inches of rain shredding Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. The President in a secure location.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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The longer I live, the more I feel like the stuff I see and feel is like a tracing of the outline of the real stuff that’s beyond our perceptions.
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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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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
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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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“I am unflappable,” Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he’d thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.
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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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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.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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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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“What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.
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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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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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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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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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Patricia decided there was nothing to do but climb the nearest tree and see if she could see anything from it. Like a road. Or a house. Or some landmark that Dirrp might recognize.
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Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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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.