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To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now. — Aaron Allston

And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind."
"Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic."
"Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!"
"I withdraw my objection. — Aaron Allston

When are they going to stop calling me General?"
"When are they going to stop calling me Princess?"
Han & Leia — Aaron Allston

Begging your pardon, sir, but you're crazy enough to be a Wraith."
"Until you've crewed with me for a few years, kid, you have no idea what 'crazy' means. — Aaron Allston

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others. — Washington Allston

In Allston, as generous as he was with his praise and encouragement, Sophia had come face-to-face with the male art establishment and its aesthetic. She had encountered it before when she was hustled out of Thomas Doughty's studio while a men's painting class was in session. More recently, at a gathering in the Reverend Channing's parlor, she had been stunned when the minister had quoted the influential British artist Henry Fuseli's sneering observation that there was "no fist" in women's painting - and then demanded Sophia's response. Flustered, Sophia had "sunk away into my shell," unable to speak, she confided in her journal. She had enough trouble summoning the confidence to paint each day, let alone defend women artists as a class. Channing's question struck to the heart of Sophia's ambivalence about taking the initiative to create original works of art. Virtually — Megan Marshall

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. — Washington Allston

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 — Aaron Allston

Tomer: "What's this?"
Cabinet: "Wt's ths?"
Wedge: "Cabinet."
Tomer: "I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking."
Cabinet: " ... ts tlkng"
Janson: "Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces."
Tycho: "He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all."
Hobbie: "Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything. — Aaron Allston

That was interesting."
"He deliberately countermanded one of my orders."
"He was furtive."
"Sneaky, even."
"We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."
Tycho & Wedge (about Jag) — Aaron Allston

You're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things. Where do you suppose happiness lies? — Aaron Allston

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. — Aaron Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. — Washington Allston

When all else fails, complicate matters. — Aaron Allston

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. — Washington Allston

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? — Aaron Allston

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own. — Washington Allston

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface."
"Crash."
"Quite slowly."
Face & Luke — Aaron Allston

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back. — Washington Allston

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want."
"We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to."
"Thanks."
Wedge & Tycho — Aaron Allston

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other! — Washington Allston

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself. — Aaron Allston

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table.
Han (to Leia) — Aaron Allston

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down. — Washington Allston

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die.
Mara — Aaron Allston

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate. — Washington Allston

Sithspit! What's that?'
'That's the sun, Wedge. It's after dawn.'
'Well, it offends me. Turn it off.'
'It's a hundred thirty, hundred forty million klicks from here.'
'Go up in your X-wing and shoot it down for me. — Aaron Allston

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect. — Washington Allston

Cuteness should be preserved. — Aaron Allston

If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds. — Washington Allston

Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving ... '
Alema Rar — Aaron Allston

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

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. — Aaron Allston

Mission One is the meeting with Zsinj. Face commands and has chosen Dia and Kell to accompany him. This is all intelligence gathering, very delicate, which is why the crew is full of deadly killers. — Aaron Allston

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in. — Aaron Allston

And these have been successfully tested."
"Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact."
Face & Luke — Aaron Allston

Where you find the greatest good, there you will also find greatest Evil, for Evil likes Paradise every bit as much as Good does. What makes the best environment for Clematis armandi makes a lovely home for leaf hoppers. A place where Joe Allston hopes to enjoy his retirement turns out to be Tom Weld's ancestral acres and a place attractive to Caliban. — Wallace Stegner

Violence is the first refuge of the violent. — Aaron Allston

Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn."
"I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."
Luke & Jaina — Aaron Allston

Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo?
Mara to Luke — Aaron Allston

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained. — Washington Allston

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 — Aaron Allston

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

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause. — Washington Allston

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap. — Aaron Allston

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker. — Aaron Allston

Now, you should admit it: you are here engaged in some military action directed against the Yuuzhan Vong, knowing full well that any action you take could embroil the people of this peaceful world in your destructive war."
"Isn't destructive war kind of redundant? Until I see a constructive war, or even a giggly war, I have to think so."
Mudlath & Han — Aaron Allston

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic. — Aaron Allston

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

There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet. — Aaron Allston

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

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

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. — Washington Allston

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. — Washington Allston

It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it. — Washington Allston

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

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open. — Washington Allston

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?"
"Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us."
Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. "When all else fails, just do that. — Aaron Allston

... The Antilles and Horn clans sat at a folding table between two StealthXs, playing what looked like a cutthroat game of sabacc. — Aaron Allston

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. — Washington Allston

Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there. — Washington Allston

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed. — Washington Allston

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits. — Aaron Allston

With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs.
Diss Ti'wyn — Aaron Allston

A green X-wing closed in tighter to the formation. "Yes, sir." Though distorted by the comm system, the voice sounded indulgent rather than military.
"That's 'Yes, Wedge' until we're formally returned to duty." The commander smiled. "Or perhaps, 'Yes, Exalted One.' Or 'Yes, O envy of all Corellia.' Or- — Aaron Allston

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool
who is at the mercy of every fool he meets. — Washington Allston

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,
feel it, and hate in silence. — Washington Allston

I hope you're rushing to tell me that the chef has acquired Jacen Solo's entrails and is braising them for dinner."
"Not quite, Admiral."
"Life is full of disappointments. — Aaron Allston

No one pays me to be nice. — Aaron Allston

Welcome aboard Mon Remonda. Let's get the rest of your pilots in ... so I can get out of this torture suit."
"But, sir, I was just going to say how smart you looked in your uniform. I think we ought to stay here, in uniform, a couple of hours so the holographers can capture the image. You know, for the historians."
"Wedge, I think I'm going to have you killed."
"Yes, sir. I trust you'll wear your dress uniform for an event like that. — Aaron Allston

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. — Aaron Allston

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow. — Aaron Allston

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. — Washington Allston

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. — Washington Allston

You can't look dignified when you're having fun. — Aaron Allston