Karen Traviss Quotes

• If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

  Karen Traviss

  Left, Ifs

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• Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.

  Karen Traviss

  Thinking, Hands, Together

  Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.58, Del Rey

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• Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

  Karen Traviss

  Memories, Revenge, Long

  Karen Traviss (2011). “Order 66: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando): A Republic Commando Novel”, p.405, Del Rey

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• Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

  Karen Traviss

  Father, Care, Nobody Cares

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• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  Karen Traviss

  Book, Objectivity, Facts

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• Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

  Karen Traviss

  Writing, Adventure, Exploring The World

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• We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

  Karen Traviss

  Odds, Might, Matter

  Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.165, Del Rey

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• Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

  Karen Traviss

  Reality, Light, Color

  Karen Traviss (2011). “True Colors: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.38, Del Rey

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• I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

  Karen Traviss

  Responsibility, Roles, Avalanches

  Karen Traviss (2009). “Ally”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

  Karen Traviss

  Ignorance, Government, One Day

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• I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

  Karen Traviss

  Love Is, Comfort, Comfort Zone

  "Batman: Arkham Unhinged Gets a New Writer". Interview with Joey Esposito, www.ign.com. September 25, 2012.

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• If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

  Karen Traviss

  Fire, Enemy, Return

  Karen Traviss (2008). “Sacrifice: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.135, Del Rey

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• If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

  Karen Traviss

  Prepared, Ifs

  Karen Traviss (2008). “Bloodlines: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.152, Del Rey

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