Connie Willis Quotes
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Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
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Time is the fire in which we burn. - Delmore Schwartz
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One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.
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They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.
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Don't come all the way across town. There's a Metro station right outside of Arlington. I'll meet you there, all right?
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I remember an aunt saying sagely, "The good die young." Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.
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I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.
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Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.
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There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I
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I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
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Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.
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One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.
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Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.
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I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
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I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.
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It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.
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And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
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Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened.
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I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
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I don't know who started the myth that sheep are fluffy and white. They were more the color of an old mop and just as matted with dirt.
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Come here, cat. You wouldn't want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.
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And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.
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It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.
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That's the problem with models - they only include the details people think are relevant,
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Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there?" Mel shook his head. "By the wolves," he said.
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It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.
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face Lady Schrapnell. And I promised I'd help
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Will I ever see you again? No. Do I love you? Yes, for all time.
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Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
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After all, Americans can be terrifying.
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One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.
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Io suuicien lui damo amo," she said softly. "You are here in place of the friends I love.
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It cannot rain but it pours." - JONATHAN SWIFT Oh,
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what the hell is 'emotional bonding,' anyway? It sounds like something out of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off." - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream The
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None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.
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It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
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I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
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Do it on the radio." - Educating Rita Saved
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Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC.
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The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.
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Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
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1. Optimize potential.2. Facilitate empowerment.
3. Implement visioning.
4. Strategize priorities.
5. Augment core structures. — Connie Willis
