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    As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

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    Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

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    Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.

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    Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

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    Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

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    Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

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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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    Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

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    Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

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    I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

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    I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

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    I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

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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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    I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

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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 do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

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    If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

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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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    If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

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    If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

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    I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

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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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    I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

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    In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

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    It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

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    Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.

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    My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

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    Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

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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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    Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.

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    Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

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    Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

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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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    When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

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    When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

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    When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

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    You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.

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    1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online. 2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like. 3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice. 4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes. 5. However, if your solution to this “problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole. 6. You may also be twelve. 7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own. 8. So leave them alone and go about your own life." [Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]

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    After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill.

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    A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate.

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    All of us have people who saw weaknesses, who saw pressure points, and who saw ways to use of own ways and stubbornness against us. This threat is real. This treat is both practical and existential. It it isn't met by all of us, all of us are likely to be destroyed.

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    Christ on a Popsicle stick.

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    Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

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    Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.