131 Quotes by Timothy Zahn



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    If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.

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    The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live.

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    His chief failing is a lack of curiosity.” “I’d have said no imagination.” “All beings possess imagination to varying degrees,” Thrawn said. “It can be encouraged and nurtured, or can sometimes shine out in moments of stress. But curiosity is a choice. Some wish to have it. Others don’t.

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    If you don’t want to be noticed, you don’t use a Star Destroyer.

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    The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor’s throne.

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    The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork, stimulating the brain and freeing one’s intellect.

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