Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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About John Scalzi

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John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series which won the Hugo Award for Best Series, and for his blog Whatever, where...

More quotations from John Scalzi

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

—Isaac Asimov

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

—Hugh Elliott

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

—Hugh Elliott

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

—George Bernard Shaw

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

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