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Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? -Frizz mizuno

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
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Science Fiction Writer
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Dallas
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Scott David Westerfeld
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Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
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No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
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there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
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If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
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The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
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Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
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And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
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They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance.
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the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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People only worry about the uncanny for about a week that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
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When the term machine gun enters common parlance, the word machine becomes much more sinister.
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She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
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