Top 52 Aaron Allston Quotes
#1. Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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#2. Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn."
"I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."
Luke & Jaina
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#3. The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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#4. If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
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#5. Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want."
"We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to."
"Thanks."
Wedge & Tycho
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#7. There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.
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#8. Begging your pardon, sir, but you're crazy enough to be a Wraith."
"Until you've crewed with me for a few years, kid, you have no idea what 'crazy' means.
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#9. I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?"
"Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us."
Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. "When all else fails, just do that.
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#10. To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.
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#11. And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind."
"Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic."
"Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!"
"I withdraw my objection.
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#12. ... The Antilles and Horn clans sat at a folding table between two StealthXs, playing what looked like a cutthroat game of sabacc.
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#13. I hope you're rushing to tell me that the chef has acquired Jacen Solo's entrails and is braising them for dinner."
"Not quite, Admiral."
"Life is full of disappointments.
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#14. Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving ... '
Alema Rar
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#15. The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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#16. I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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#17. I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.
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#18. You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.
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#19. Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to."
"No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission."
"We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to.
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#20. You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
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#21. Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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#22. Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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#24. Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
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#25. I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas."
"You haven't heard all our ideas."
Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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#26. When are they going to stop calling me General?"
"When are they going to stop calling me Princess?"
Han & Leia
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#28. Sithspit! What's that?'
'That's the sun, Wedge. It's after dawn.'
'Well, it offends me. Turn it off.'
'It's a hundred thirty, hundred forty million klicks from here.'
'Go up in your X-wing and shoot it down for me.
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#30. Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
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#31. The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.
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#32. This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
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#33. Mission One is the meeting with Zsinj. Face commands and has chosen Dia and Kell to accompany him. This is all intelligence gathering, very delicate, which is why the crew is full of deadly killers.
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#34. With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs.
Diss Ti'wyn
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#37. Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
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#38. Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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#39. That was interesting."
"He deliberately countermanded one of my orders."
"He was furtive."
"Sneaky, even."
"We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."
Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
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#40. The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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#41. Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table.
Han (to Leia)
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#42. And these have been successfully tested."
"Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact."
Face & Luke
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#43. No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.
-General Wedge Antilles
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#44. The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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#46. Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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#47. There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.
Luke Skywalker
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#48. Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die.
Mara
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#49. Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo?
Mara to Luke
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#50. At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface."
"Crash."
"Quite slowly."
Face & Luke
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#51. I don't have to blow up everything I see ... I just like to.
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#52. I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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