Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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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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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
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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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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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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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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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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
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Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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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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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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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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...the scent of overpriced coffee was like the armpit of God.
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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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This particular evening, a giant yellow moon crested over a clear warm sky, so every fixture, the owls included, was floodlit like a carnival on its last night in town, and moon-drunk roars came from every corner. A perfect night to go out and make some dirty magic.
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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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Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.
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Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown.
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Laurence kept sneaking looks under the table at his propped-open copy of Have Space Suit - Will Travel. He was already halfway through the book.
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He found himself curious to ask her stuff and see how she responded - because he never, ever knew what Patricia would say about anything. He only knew it would be something weird.
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If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
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It just … makes serendipity happen more often.
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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.