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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
Manual
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Instruction
Doesn
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Life

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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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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.
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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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Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.
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I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
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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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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault. Or everyone's.
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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
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Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city. There are no limits in war, Volger said, still staring out the window.
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