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Jo Walton

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Quotations and sayings

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One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

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02Undated

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

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03Undated

You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you’re connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you’re not connected to anything.

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04Undated

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

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05Undated

She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.

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06Undated

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?

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07Undated

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

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08Undated

what's real within the story is real within the story

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09Undated

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

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10Undated

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

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11Undated

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

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12Undated

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

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13Undated

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

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14Undated

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

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15Undated

My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that she had no integrity left and was nothing but a coil of hatreds consuming themselves in futility. We had already hedged her power, with the help of the fairies.

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16Undated

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

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17Undated

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonderful. They’re better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

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18Undated

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

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19Undated

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

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20Undated

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

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21Undated

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

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22Undated

They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. What good does an independent nuclear deterrent do Britain, compared to the good of libraries?

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