Top 100 Alan Dean Foster Quotes
#1. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.
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#2. At incredible velocity and accelerating exponentially, the concentrated volume of quintessence escaped, transforming as it did so into a state known as phantom energy and following the artificial line of egress that had been provided.
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#4. Standard issue helmets are designed to filter out smoke, not toxins.
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#5. Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.
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#6. Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.
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#8. There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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#9. Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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#10. Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
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#11. Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
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#13. His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.
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#14. Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility.
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#15. From the box she removed a lightsaber. Finn eyed it uncertainly, but even in the poor light, Han recognized it immediately. Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. "Where'd you get that?" Han demanded. "Long story. A good one - for later.
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#16. Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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#18. easier question to answer. "Who wouldn't be? This is New Riviera, the paradise planet, the best of Mother Earth concentrated and then spread like a fine glaze on an entire world instead of just a small part of it.
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#19. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.
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#20. There was no reply. That in itself was encouraging. They trudged on, Luke stealing admiring glances at her when she wasn't looking.
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#21. The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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#22. The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead
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#23. I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.
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#24. We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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#25. When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.
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#26. Confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.
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#27. Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.
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#28. I'm not a hero. I'm not Resistance. I'm a stormtrooper. That
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#30. I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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#31. Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.
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#33. She finally managed to free her fingers from his. I know how to run without you holding my hand!
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#34. Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
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#38. I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
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#40. There has been an awakening in the Force. Have you felt it?
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#41. Awkwardly pressed up against him, the Princess seemed to take no notice of their proximity. In the dampness, though, her body heat was near palpable to Luke and he had to force himself to keep his attention on what he was doing.
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#42. It is you, Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself.
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#43. The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. "Because it's the right thing to do." Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. "Buddy, if we're gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other." The trooper stared at him for a long moment. "I need a pilot.
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#44. ... those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.
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#45. Show me, Grandfather, and I will finish what you started. Trembling
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#46. Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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#49. The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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#50. Han Solo.
A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraordinaire. It was hard to believe he was real, Finn thought. Solo was history come to life.
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#51. Nothing," declared the first stormtrooper, standing at attention. Poe winked up at the trooper who had used his hands. "Good job." Forgetting
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#52. It is I, See-Threepio! You probably don't recognize me because of the red arm. Turning
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#53. I don't get to treat many lightsaber wounds. It's such an old weapon. People today prefer to fight with rifles and blasters, from long range." She shrugged. "I suppose it doesn't matter. Death is death, no matter the mechanism that is employed to beget it.
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#54. I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense ... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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#55. I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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#56. She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.
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#58. To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes
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#59. The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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#60. Maybe one day, before the universe died, Unkar Plutt would take a bath.
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#61. On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then
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#62. I can't do this by myself. It requires two security codes to access the full system and shut it down.
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#63. Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
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#64. If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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#65. That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock
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#66. For an ordinary man, yes" she had replied. "But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker
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#67. You always think you can make it up to somebody - later, you know.' She took a deep breath. 'But now I never can. I never can.
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#68. The Millennium Falcon." She could not keep the wonder out of her voice. "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs." "Twelve parsecs.
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#69. I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one.
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#71. The Supreme Leader's voice was flat. "You have compassion for her." "No - never. Compassion? For an enemy of the Order?" "I perceive the problem," Snoke intoned. "It isn't her strength that is making you fail. It's your weakness." The rebuke hurt, but Ren didn't show it.
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#74. First comes the day Then comes the night. After the darkness Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right By the resolving of gray Through refined Jedi sight. - Journal of the Whills, 7:477
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#76. She gathered her belongings and headed for the makeshift entrance that led into the belly of the half-destroyed AT-AT walker. It might be an ancient, rotting, rusting example of now useless military might, but to Rey, it was home.
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#77. There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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#78. If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.
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#79. Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.
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#80. Long-established totalitarian governments fear any kind of free expression. A sculpture can be a manifesto, a manuscripted adventure can double as a cry for rebellion.
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#81. Just stay calm and collected and baffle them with space dust.
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#82. For an ordinary trooper like him, ignorance was not simply an abstract value. It was in the manual.
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#83. I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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#84. Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.
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#85. Man and thranx had been so close for so long that they were no longer thought of as aliens. More like short people in shiny suits.
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#86. A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.
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#88. You may not believe it, but there are some people out there who don't like me." "Hard to imagine," she murmured.
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#89. With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.
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#91. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side." Though
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#92. Back to Jak - Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku? There's nothing there! Sand and junk and rocks and sand and quicksand and sand - I don't get it!
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#93. This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.
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#94. I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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#95. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (Ellen Ripley)
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#96. She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.
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#97. No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For
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#98. Poe readied himself. "The Resistance will not be intimidated by you."
"As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.
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#99. It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.
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#100. I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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