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“I don’t appreciate the suggestion that I’m acting irrationally,” he said.
“Then don’t act irrationally,” Jane said, “because there will be consequences.”

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John Scalzi The Last Colony

Origine: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 7 (p. 136)

““That’s a nice speech, Trujillo,” Rybicki said. “It doesn’t make it true.”
“General, at the moment, I wouldn’t place you as an authority on truth.””

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John Scalzi The Last Colony

Origine: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 14 (p. 274)

“Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things.”

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John Scalzi libro Zoe's Tale

Origine: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 7 (p. 76)

““Obviously, the Rraey have some way to predict, with a high degree of accuracy, where our ships are going to skip. How do they do that?”
“I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to,” I said.
“That’s exactly right. But they do anyway. So, quite obviously, our model of how skipping works is wrong. Theory gets thrown out the window when observation proves it isn’t so. The question now is what is really going on.””

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John Scalzi

Origine: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 13 (p. 224)

“In this universe, experience counts.”

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John Scalzi

Origine: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 142)

“The recruit was Sam McCain; in one of our lunch sessions I recalled Sarah O’Connell describing him as more mouth than brain. Unsurprisingly, he’d been in sales most of his life.”

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John Scalzi

Origine: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 136)

“Those people you saw—the realborn—are born without a plan. They’re born because biology tells humans to make more humans; but it doesn’t consider what to do with them after that. Realborn go for years without the slightest clue what they’re going to do with themselves. From what I understand, some of them never actually figure it out. They just walk through life in a daze and then fall into their graves at the end of it. Sad. And inefficient.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

Origine: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 5 (p. 86)

“I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.”

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John Scalzi libro Zoe's Tale

Origine: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 21 (p. 302)

“Look,” I said. “Something that needs your attention. Over there. Away from here.”

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John Scalzi The Last Colony

Origine: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 15 (p. 306)

“You are better at small talk than I am. That is not always a compliment.”

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John Scalzi libro Lock In

Origine: Lock In (2014), Chapter 22 (p. 296)

“I have drinks,” Hanson said, coming up behind Duvall.
“Why, Jimmy,” Duvall said. “That makes you my new favorite person.”

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John Scalzi libro Redshirts

Origine: Redshirts (2012), Chapter 1 (p. 23)

“What’s the point of being in charge if you can’t indulge in pointless favoritism.”

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John Scalzi

Origine: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 7 (p. 124)

“It’s Charlie’s soul,” he repeated. “Or more accurately, it’s a holographic representation of the dynamic electrical system that embodies the consciousness of Charles Boutin.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

Origine: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 2 (p. 39)

“Some people are just no good at not being in charge.”

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John Scalzi The Last Colony

Origine: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 3 (p. 57)

“I’m not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.”

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John Scalzi

Origine: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 9 (p. 159)

“Empires of conquest don’t last, Administrator Perry. They hollow out from within, from the greed of rulers and the endless appetite for war.”

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John Scalzi The Last Colony

Origine: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 10 (p. 195)

“When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

Origine: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 169)

“Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.”

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John Scalzi The Last Colony

Origine: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 72)

“No, it's not fair. You're in the wrong universe for fair.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

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The Ghost Brigades (2006)

““This is Major Perry’s house?”
“I hope so,” I said. “All his stuff is here.””

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John Scalzi libro Zoe's Tale

Origine: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 1 (p. 23)

“When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.”

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John Scalzi The Last Colony

Origine: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 5 (p. 97)

“Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think - and my experience of geekdom bears on this thinking - that the true sign of a geek is a delight in sharing a thing. It's the major difference between a geek and a hipster, you know: When a hipster sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say "Oh, crap, now the wrong people like the thing I love." When a geek sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say "ZOMG YOU LOVE WHAT I LOVE COME WITH ME AND LET US LOVE IT TOGETHER."”

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John Scalzi

Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/26/who-gets-to-be-a-geek-anyone-who-wants-to-be/

“I had never seen so many old people in one place at one time. Neither had Harry. “It’s like Wednesday morning at the world’s biggest Denny’s,” he said.”

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John Scalzi

Origine: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 3 (p. 41)

“She was temptable—which, if you believe in an all-powerful God, means God intentionally put temptation into Eve. Which seems like a dirty trick, if you ask me.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

Origine: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 13 (p. 288)

“Eight-year-olds can switch into acquisition mode pretty quickly.”

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John Scalzi libro Zoe's Tale

Origine: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 4 (p. 53)

“I don’t think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this,” he said finally.
“I don’t want to be happy,” Dahl said. “I just want to know.”

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John Scalzi libro Redshirts

Origine: Redshirts (2012), Chapter 23 (p. 229)

““I didn’t say that,” Szilard said, in a tone that implied that perhaps he had.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

Origine: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 6 (p. 118)

“Unlike Agents Vann and Shane here, who are being wholly disingenuous, you might be speaking out of genuine ignorance and not just your usual levels of casual obstructionism.”

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John Scalzi libro Lock In

Origine: Lock In (2014), Chapter 3 (p. 40)

“Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

Origine: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 13 (p. 288)

“Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people.”

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John Scalzi libro The Ghost Brigades

Origine: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 5 (p. 113)

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