Robin Sloan Short Quotes

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Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

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Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

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Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

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Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

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Kat bought a New York Times but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so now she's fiddling with her phone.

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The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

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I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

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Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

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I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I'd probably just google it.

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Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

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I can't stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

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Nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

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Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

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You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

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