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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Manuals
Instruction
Doesn
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Life
Manual

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.
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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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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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Never bored on a hoverboard.
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
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But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.
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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
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you just took on five million years of evolution again
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