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John Scalzi Inspirational Quotes (31)

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It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
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If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
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I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
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Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
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The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
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I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
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Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.
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I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
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I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
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Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.
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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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The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
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There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.
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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
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I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti
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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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I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.
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Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
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GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.
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I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
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Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
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Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.
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Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
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We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.
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