Robin Sloan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.91, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.147, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.”
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“Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan
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“I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”
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“This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried many times to figure out exactly what ignites it -- what cocktail of characteristics come together in the cold, dark cosmos to form a star. I know it's mostly in the face -- not just the eyes, but the brow, the cheeks, the mouth, and the micromuscles that connect them all. Kat's micromuscles are very attractive.”
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“Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.79, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)”
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“A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan
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“...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.”
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“When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?”
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“Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.132, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.42, Macmillan
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“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
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“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.”
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“You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan
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“Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?†“My boy!†he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.”
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“He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.”
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“Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.”
-- Robin SloanSource : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.”
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“Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.”
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