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You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

John Scalzi

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John Scalzi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 10
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John Michael Scalzi II
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I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
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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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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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