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All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”
“Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.”
“Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.”
“Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.”
“I am unflappable,” Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he’d thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.”
“When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.”
“We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.”
“You never learned the secret,” said Roberta. “How to be a crazy motherfucker and get away with it. Everybody else does it. What, you didn’t think they were all sane, did you? Not a one of them. They’re all crazier than you and me put together. They just know how to fake it. You could too, but you’ve chosen to torture all of us instead. That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show. It’s like bugs under the skin. We have to destroy you. It’s nothing personal.”
“Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.”
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Book Keywords:
society, scapegoats, loose-ends, life, ethics, chaos, world, self-awareness