Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
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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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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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Even among humans, self-awareness has gradations.
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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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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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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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“No,” the bird said. “Please! Don’t lock me up. I would prefer you just kill me now.
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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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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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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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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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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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Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.
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“Oh,” Patricia said. “Then I’m a witch. I guess.” “Ah.” The eagle’s hooked beak clicked. “But you will have to prove it. Or both you and Dirrp will be punished.
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Actually, Laurence is hardly ever home; this is the first I’ve seen him in weeks. Which can only mean one thing: Red Dwarf marathon.