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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting
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Alan Dean Foster |
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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First comes the day Then comes the night. After the darkness Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right By the resolving of gray Through refined Jedi sight. --Journal of the Whills, 7:477
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees
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Alan Dean Foster |
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It is you," Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself."
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Alan Dean Foster |
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That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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She finally managed to free her fingers from his. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!"
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Chewie, we're home,
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Alan Dean Foster |
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If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)"
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Alan Dean Foster |
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When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock
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Alan Dean Foster |
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With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Never underestimate a droid,
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Hearing his howls of outrage, a pair of stormtroopers crossing at the far end of the access hallway changed course to investigate. What they saw within the cell as bits and pieces of red-hot debris came flying out caused them to retreat the way they had come--fast.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Oh really? You're cold?
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Alan Dean Foster |
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The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. "Because it's the right thing to do." Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. "Buddy, if we're gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other." The trooper stared at him for a long moment. "I need a pilot."
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Alan Dean Foster |
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A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Back to Jak-- Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku? There's nothing there! Sand and junk and rocks and sand and quicksand and sand--I don't get it!
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Alan Dean Foster |
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I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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So much beauty among so much turmoil. In a way, we are but an infinitely smaller reflection of the same conflict. It is the task of the First Order to remove the disorder from our own existence, so that civilization may be returned to the stability that promotes progress. A stability that existed under the Empire, was reduced to anarchy by the Rebellion, was inherited in turn by the so-called Republic, and will be restored by us. Future his..
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Alan Dean Foster |
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A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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If she could push him out of her mind and enter his, what else could she do? What might she be able to do with regard to someone else? Someone less skilled, untrained in the ways of the Force? The single guard posted just inside the front of her cell, for example? "You!" He turned toward her, patently unconcerned and not a little bored. She studied him closely. As he was about to speak, she addressed him clearly and firmly--and not only wit..
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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There are even a handful who like to collect biological specimens. Those with money collect live ones. Those without money become scientists.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Death displays nothing if not variety in its methods, which are often surprising and sometimes amusing.
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Alan Dean Foster |
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Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?
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Robert A. Heinlein / Alan Dean Foster |