Karen Traviss

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G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.
- Karen Traviss
Collection: Attitude
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If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?
- Karen Traviss
Collection: Left
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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
Collection: Thinking
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Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.
- Karen Traviss
Collection: Memories
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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
Collection: Father
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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
Collection: Book
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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
Collection: Writing
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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
Collection: Odds
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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
Collection: Reality
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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
Collection: Responsibility
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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
Collection: Ignorance
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
- Karen Traviss
Collection: Love Is
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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
Collection: Fire
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If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.
- Karen Traviss
Collection: Prepared