Connie Willis Quotes - Page 2

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• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

  Connie Willis

  Sleep, Idyllic, Wonderland

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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• Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

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  Filled Out, Long, Forgiving

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.140, Spectra

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• No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

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  Lasts, Problem, Said

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.18, Bantam

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• Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you." "I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.

  Connie Willis

  Fax, Needs, Might

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.24, Bantam

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• And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

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  Years, Nine, Hundred

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.449, Bantam

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• He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too--in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?

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  War, Home, Sacrifice

  Connie Willis (2010). “All Clear”, p.635, Spectra

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• One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

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  Years, Library, Trends

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.21, Spectra

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• The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

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  Moving, Impossible, Reason

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.174, Bantam

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• TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.

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  Girl, War, Airplane

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• That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

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  Giving, Care, Lines

  Connie Willis (2009). “Remake”, p.65, Spectra

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• I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

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  Latin, Book, College

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• It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

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  Girl, Ugly, Helping

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.54, Spectra

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• Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

  Connie Willis

  Cat, Threat, Knows

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.197, Bantam

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• There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Periods

  Connie Willis (1993). “Impossible things”, Spectra

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• The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.

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  Self, Wish, Levels

  Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

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• I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

  Connie Willis

  Trials, Guilty

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• I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

  Connie Willis

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

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• Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

  Connie Willis

  Thinking, Missing, Moments

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• It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

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  Easy, Sock, Easy Things

  Connie Willis (2013). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Hachette UK

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