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  1. John Scalzi _ The Android's Dream

    Now if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I need to play Russian roulette with our planet's future with the bullet you've so thoughtfully provided. I hope you don't mind if I don't see you out.
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  2. John Scalzi _ Redshirts

    A fourth part of his brain was saying, This is the part where you run and scream a lot. He was listening to the fourth part.
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  3. John Scalzi _ The Android's Dream

    If there's one thing that distinguishes the human species, it is a pathological need to stay connected. The fact your people will interrupt sex to answer your communicators is a scandal across the entire Common Confederation.
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  4. John Scalzi _ The Android's Dream

    You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.
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  5. John Scalzi _ Redshirts

    I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate. That's something I can work on. It's what I'm working on now.
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  6. John Scalzi _ The Human Division

    This brings me back to my question about my karma," Wilson said. "You probably set kittens on fire," Schmidt said. "And the rest of us were probably there with you, with skewers.
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  7. John Scalzi _ Old Man's War

    How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status?
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  8. John Scalzi _ The End of All Things

    And so we learn how simple it is to change the history of the universe," Sorvalh said. "All you need is for every other thing to have gone so horribly wrong
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  9. John Scalzi _ The Ghost Brigades

    He reached over, took the second cookie, and offered it to Robbins. "Here," he said. "I saw you coveting it." Robbins stared at the cookie, then looked around. "I can't take that," he said. "Sure you can," Szilard said. "I'm not supposed to eat anything here," Robbins said. "So what?" Szilard said. "Screw 'em. It's a ridiculous tradition and you know it. So break it. Take the cookie." Robbins took the cookie and stared at it glumly. "Oh, good God," Szilard said. "Do I have to order you to eat the damn thing?" "It might help," Robbins said. "Fine," Szilard said. "Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie." Robbins ate it. The waiter was scandalized.
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  10. John Scalzi _ Old Man's War

    Part of me was once someone you loved-she sent. I think that part of me wants to be loved by you again, and wants me to love you as well. I can't be her. I can just be me. But I think you could love me if you wanted to. I want you to. Come to me when you can. I'll be here.
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  11. John Scalzi _ Redshirts

    Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term.
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  12. John Scalzi _ The Ghost Brigades

    One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down.
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