Quotes by Connie Willis

Connie Willis

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

Hundred

Nine

Years

Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

Barbie

Fads

Race

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

Cat

Knows

Threat

Don’t they know science doesn’t work like that? You can’t just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you’ve been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you’re looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don’t they know you can’t get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

Connections

Order

Years

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Listening

People

Tired

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.

Fax

Might

Needs

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person.

Art

Hero

Love

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?

Home

Sacrifice

War

I hate sequels. They’re never as good as the first book.

Book

Firsts

Hate

I have great faith in the future of books – no matter what form they may take – and of science fiction.

Book

Fiction

May

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Barbie

Book

Bread Pudding

Care

Cat

Christie

Church Choir

College

Connections

Cost

Dames

Dog

Eye

Fads

Fax

Fiction

Filled Out

Firsts

Forgiving

Girl

Giving

Groceries

Guilty

Hate

Heard

Helping

Hero

Home

Hundred

Ideas

Impossible

Knows

Latin

Library

Lines

Listening

Lists

Long

Love

Lying

May

Might

Missing

Moments

Moving

Needs

Neurotic

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Quotes by Connie Willis

Connie Willis

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

Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

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

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

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.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person.

I hate sequels. They’re never as good as the first book.

I have great faith in the future of books – no matter what form they may take – and of science fiction.

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