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

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

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont thin...
JOHN SCALZI

People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know,...
JOHN SCALZI

I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read ma...
JOHN SCALZI

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast...
JOHN SCALZI

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.
JOHN SCALZI

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really ju...
JOHN SCALZI

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley ...
JOHN SCALZI

I’m a monster. You’re a monster. We’re all fucking inhuman monsters, and we don’t see...
JOHN SCALZI

I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a...
JOHN SCALZI

I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awh...
JOHN SCALZI

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don...
JOHN SCALZI

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of m...
JOHN SCALZI

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.
JOHN SCALZI

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

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

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
JOHN SCALZI

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

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you...
JOHN SCALZI

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
JOHN SCALZI

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I...
JOHN SCALZI

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front...
JOHN SCALZI

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked.
"You die, too. And you wait around...
JOHN SCALZI

There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equippe...
JOHN SCALZI

Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you...
JOHN SCALZI

For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s ea...
JOHN SCALZI

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
JOHN SCALZI

I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's create...
JOHN SCALZI

I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out th...
JOHN SCALZI

Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerat...
JOHN SCALZI

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

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...
JOHN SCALZI

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere ...
JOHN SCALZI

Okay, that's intensely interesting," Duvall said. "So you're a priest of the Forshan religion...
JOHN SCALZI

My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characte...
JOHN SCALZI

But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien ...
JOHN SCALZI

Jesus," Kerensky said, looking around. "You people. I have one of the most incredible experiences I'...
JOHN SCALZI

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

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.
JOHN SCALZI

You're an interesting person, Jack." Sullivan said. "I wish I could figure out what you were thingin...
JOHN SCALZI

Well, life is like that sometimes", Isabel said. "We learn things too late, and then we don't get to...
JOHN SCALZI

Well, I’m sorry you might possibly be out a bit of money, Jack,” Isabel said. “Jesus, Isabel,�...
JOHN SCALZI

It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Ho...
JOHN SCALZI

Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,"...
JOHN SCALZI

Pleasure doing business with you, Chad,” Holloway said, setting down the infopanel. “Please die ...
JOHN SCALZI

Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.
JOHN SCALZI

The idea of spending another six hours with Leon and his farts was more than I could take.
JOHN SCALZI

It is sort of remarkable to me how much grief can well up when a pet dies, until one remembers that ...
JOHN SCALZI

I’m a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.” “Ah, repression,” K...
JOHN SCALZI

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest bl...
JOHN SCALZI

In the next room, a very nice young lady, who happened to be completely naked, wanted me to tell her...
JOHN SCALZI

Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. T...
JOHN SCALZI

Christ on a Popsicle stick.
JOHN SCALZI

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it...
JOHN SCALZI

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome...
JOHN SCALZI

If you’re the best that the Earth has got to offer, it’s time we bend over and get a tentacle ri...
JOHN SCALZI

How do you like your peace now, motherfucker?
JOHN SCALZI

This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my l...
JOHN SCALZI

The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.
JOHN SCALZI

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss mean...
JOHN SCALZI

After another few days, I noticed I became annoyed whenever I would actually have to ask Asshole for...
JOHN SCALZI

Many BrainPal users find it useful to give their BrainPal a name other than BrainPal. Would you like...
JOHN SCALZI

I've always liked swimming, so long as my head's above water.
JOHN SCALZI

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w...
JOHN SCALZI

Do not mourn me, friends
I fall as a shooting star
Into the next life
JOHN SCALZI

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at...
JOHN SCALZI

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

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

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost y...
JOHN SCALZI

[I]t was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the mov...
JOHN SCALZI

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritio...
JOHN SCALZI

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don&#...
JOHN SCALZI

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.
JOHN SCALZI

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's...
JOHN SCALZI

There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an...
JOHN SCALZI

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
JOHN SCALZI

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that com...
JOHN SCALZI

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.
JOHN SCALZI

For two years, all you have to do is go where they tell you, stay behind your rifle, and kill and no...
JOHN SCALZI

Enzo showed a flair for words early and wrote his first story when he was seven, entitled "The horri...
JOHN SCALZI

What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI

It’s war, you jackasses,” Keyes snapped. “I’m sorry it’s not terribly convenient or comfor...
JOHN SCALZI

You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make hum...
JOHN SCALZI

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON

I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON

I despise you and I love you, you who are my damnation and salvation both.

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