Connie Willis Short Quotes

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I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

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If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

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Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

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It's the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.

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Nobody deserves this. Please, she prayed, and wasn't sure what she asked.
Whatever it was, it was not granted.

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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

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One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

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There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

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The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

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One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

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It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

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People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.

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Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

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What's going on? I whispered to Gina.
Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.

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My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn't have wasted his time looking for an honest man, Shirl said, he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.

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There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

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No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

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They're absolutely necrotic, aren't they? Colin whispered behind his order of service.
It's late twentieth century atonal, Dunworthy whispered back. It's supposed to sound dreadful.

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You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

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That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

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I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

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