Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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This time, I’m just going to do it. I’m going to cure him. Because why not? It would be so easy.
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“At last Mouth said, “Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.
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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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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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You might mistake understanding for forgiveness, but if you did, then the unforgiven wrong would catch you off guard, like a cramp, just as you reached for generosity.
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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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“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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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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“I found a wounded bird,” Patricia said. “It can’t fly, its wing is ruined.
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I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.
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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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Plus Ginnifer’s Sexoskeleton, which would take way too long to describe.
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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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Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.
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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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The secret to a successful webcomic is to trick people into believing they will only get all the jokes if they read regularly. By the time they realize there are no jokes for them to get, they’ve invested too much time to quit, and they can’t admit they’ve been duped,” said Kevin. “There is a whole art to creating nonexistent jokes that appear to go over everyone’s head. It’s much harder than creating actual jokes.
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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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Why was outrage only available when useless
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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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The two of them sipped coffee and shook their heads, trapped in recursively horrible memories.
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Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.
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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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When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos
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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.