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John Scalzi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 10
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Fairfield
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John Michael Scalzi II
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We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.
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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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If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
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The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
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I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti
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When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.
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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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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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Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.
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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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You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
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I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
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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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GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.
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Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
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The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.
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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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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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Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
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Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.
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