Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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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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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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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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“Laurence?” “Yeah.” He shrugged. And then his eyes grew. “Patricia?” “Yeah.” “Oh, cool. It’s good to, uh, see you again. How have you been?”
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Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.
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You know... 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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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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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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He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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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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“I found a wounded bird,” Patricia said. “It can’t fly, its wing is ruined.
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Plus Ginnifer’s Sexoskeleton, which would take way too long to describe.
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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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Diantha came so close to saying she would do whatever Patricia wanted, anything at all. And then it hit her: She was being Trickstered. She’d been this close to becoming a slave to her former best friend. Diantha backed away, almost tipping over a teak side table full of drinks.
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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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Why was outrage only available when useless
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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 man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
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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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Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.
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The way the antigravity field destabilized
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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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When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos