Aaron Allston Quotes

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• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

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  Luck, Hanging On, Way

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

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  Differences, Tragedy, Awful

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• Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

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  Firsts, Lawyer, Fierce

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• If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

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  Domain, Server, Hacks

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• Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

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  Definitions, Pay

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• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

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  Sad, Two, People

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• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

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  Analysis

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• When all else fails, complicate matters

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  Matter, Failing, When All Else Fails

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• Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

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  Hurt, Firsts, Sometimes

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• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

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  Believe, People, Feminist

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• I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

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  Smart, Stupid, Dumb

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• The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

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  Lying, Cat, Differences

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• The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

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  New Friendship, Drs, Good Things

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• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

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  Feet, Wipe, Tradition

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• Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

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  War, Lethargy, Ennui

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• Life is like an analogy.

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  Life Is Like, Analogies, Life Is

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• There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker

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  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

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• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

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  Answers, Razors, Principles

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• I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

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  Ideas, Sound, Generations

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• No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

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  Violence, Wedges, Subordinates

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• No one pays me to be nice.

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  Nice, Pay, Being Nice

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• I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

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  Blow, Location, Cases

  Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1903, Del Rey

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• Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

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  Father, Hate, Doe

  Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

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• No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

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  Luke

  Aaron Allston (2008). “Fury: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.263, Del Rey

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• Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

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  Running, Mind, Rogues

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