Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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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 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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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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You’re going to, what, just walk down to Best Buy and get a time machine off the rack?
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Every time you solve a problem you’d cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature’s way of striking a balance? We humans don’t have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.
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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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There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars.
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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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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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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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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.
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I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn't find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small.
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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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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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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. It’s like bugs under the skin. We have to destroy you. It’s nothing personal.
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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
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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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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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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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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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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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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.