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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
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Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people.
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I don't think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this, he said finally.
I don't want to be happy, Dahl said. I just want to know.
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This is Major Perry's house?
I hope so, I said. All his stuff is here.
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Eight-year-olds can switch into acquisition mode pretty quickly.
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Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.
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If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
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The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.
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You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.
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Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
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Rationality is not one of humanity's strong points.
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You are better at small talk than I am. That is not always a compliment.
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Human technology was good, and weapon to weapon humans were as well-equipped as the vast majority of their adversaries. But the weapon that ultimately matters is the one behind the trigger.
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The story of how I left Huckleberry begins — as do all worthy stories — with a goat
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Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
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I don't know, Davidson said. Maybe it's not about politics. Maybe these guys are just assholes.
Seems the simplest explanation, I said.
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He's almost certainly planned for the contingency of being caught. He's rich and he's got more lawyers than some countries have people.
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What's the point of being in charge if you can't indulge in pointless favoritism.
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Empires of conquest don't last, Administrator Perry. They hollow out from within, from the greed of rulers and the endless appetite for war.
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When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.
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If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
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Sometimes I don't know if my life is complicated, or if it's that I just think too much about things.
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You don't win by getting through all your life not having done anything.
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I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
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Unlike Agents Vann and Shane here, who are being wholly disingenuous, you might be speaking out of genuine ignorance and not just your usual levels of casual obstructionism.
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John Scalzi
Born:
May 10, 1969
(age 54)
Bio:
John Michael Scalzi II is an American science fiction author, online writer, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Known for:
Old Man's War (2005)
Redshirts (2012)
Lock In (2014)
The Human Division (2013)
The End of All Things (2015)
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