Top 68 Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
#1. He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity.
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#3. He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
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#4. His life story was the story of Patricia and him, after all, for better or worse, and if she ended his life might go on, but his story would be over.
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#5. Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.
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#8. This particular evening, a giant yellow moon crested over a clear warm sky, so every fixture, the owls included, was floodlit like a carnival on its last night in town, and moon-drunk roars came from every corner. A perfect night to go out and make some dirty magic. *
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#9. We don't need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It's how we justify killing each other.
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#10. every time you solve a problem you'd cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature's way of striking a balance? We humans don't have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.
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#11. Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
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#12. A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.
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#13. I am unflappable," Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he'd thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.
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#15. And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now.
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#16. At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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#17. You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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#19. And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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#20. The bookstore had no musty "old books" smell, and instead it had a nice oaky aroma, similar to the way Laurence imagined the whiskey casks would be before you put Scotch into them for aging. This was a place where you would age well.
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#21. Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown.
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#22. That's the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can't stand it when someone else lets their crazy show.
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#23. People really don't understand the technology they're using. It's been talked about a lot. Apple products in particular are designed in such a way that's harder to get in and understand what processes are going on.
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#24. It's his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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#25. Believe me, there's nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.
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#26. That's because our parents pick out our shoes," said Patricia. "Just wait until we're grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
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#27. I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.
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#28. But the real point is, how do you ever know your own emotions are spontaneous and genuine, and not just a programmed set of responses?
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#29. And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we've grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled.
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#32. As far as we know, we're the only intelligent, technological civilization ever to develop, in the entire universe. There's complex life all over the place, but we're still basically unique. We have a fucking duty to preserve that. At all costs." Laurence
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#34. (He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.)
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#37. Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
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#38. People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.
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#39. Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship with Bushmills.
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#40. I have a pretty reasonably shrewd idea of where we go from here," said Dirrp. "At least, a sort of a notion.
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#41. Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
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#42. You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.
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#43. Someone who doesn't care if they get Tater Tots or turnip slurry is a person who has given up on life.
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#45. He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person.
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#46. You're going to, what, just walk down to Best Buy and get a time machine off the rack?
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#47. There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
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#48. As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
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#49. Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
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#50. Society is the choice between freedom on someone else's terms and slavery on yours.
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#51. Laurence kept sneaking looks under the table at his propped-open copy of Have Space Suit - Will Travel. He was already halfway through the book.
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#52. All this time as a mad scientist why didn't he have a shrink ray or stun gun in his closet somewhere? He had been wasting his life.
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#53. If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
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#54. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn't do what he liked. The
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#55. As Kevin listed these moments, she could see them with perfect clarity: all the missed cues and deflections, all the abortive moments of intimacy. All this time, she had been thinking of him as the one with commitment issues. Somewhere along the line, she had become an asshole.
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#56. This time, I'm just going to do it. I'm going to cure him. Because why not? It would be so easy.
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#57. If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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#58. She already had enough people giving her shit for Aggrandizement, she didn't need a friend who was sworn to tear her down.
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#59. On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn't an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn't do what he liked.
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#61. Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
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#62. One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant.
Probably not, though.
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#63. Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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#64. Actually, Laurence is hardly ever home; this is the first I've seen him in weeks. Which can only mean one thing: Red Dwarf marathon.
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#65. Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.
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#67. You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
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#68. When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire
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