Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
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The two of them sipped coffee and shook their heads, trapped in recursively horrible memories.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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We could not ‘break’ nature if we spent a million years trying. This planet is a speck, and we are specks on a speck. But our little habitat is fragile, and we cannot live without it.
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“I found a wounded bird,” Patricia said. “It can’t fly, its wing is ruined.
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At last they were on top of the tree, which swayed a little in the wind. Tommington was not following them. Patricia looked around twice in all directions before she saw a round fur shape scampering on the ground nearby. “Stupid cat!” she shouted. “Stupid cat! You can’t get us!”
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There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
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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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The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
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But the real point is, how do you ever know your own emotions are spontaneous and genuine, and not just a programmed set of responses?
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He just wanted to be left alone and maybe have people get his name right if they had to talk to him.
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He couldn't believe that his last words on Earth would be "she's my rocket ship
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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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Every community has a need that is cannot meet in itself. The more they say they do not need us, the harder we must try to become what they need most.
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Eventually, Dad and I had to start talking again, because it’s hard to avoid speaking to someone when you’re each supporting one arm of a dying person.
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When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos
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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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He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
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Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.
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As far as we know, we’re the only intelligent, technological civilization ever to develop, in the entire universe. There’s complex life all over the place, but we’re still basically unique. We have a fucking duty to preserve that. At all costs.” Laurence”
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The paper about gravity tunneling
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“Behold,” Isobel said, “a single-stage Earth-to-orbit rocket. I drove all the way from Virginia just to help with this. My boyfriend is crazy jealous.
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Knowledge is justice