Top 150 Chuck Wendig Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Mmph! Mmph.” Translation: The Emperor will have your heads for this.”

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102. “Did you know the Death Star had a bar? Ugly, austere little place – really like all Imperial architecture, ugh – and the selection of spirits was hardly commendable.”

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103. “Nothing except the desire between them, the ground below them, the night above.”

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104. “Hell, nobody’s okay. Maybe we never were, and we damn sure aren’t now. But we’re here. Until we’re not. And that’s all I find it fair to ask for.”

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105. “Don’t you dare say he’s going to be a bandit. He’ll be an angel.”

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106. “People are weird, Atlanta thinks. Everybody’s someone different than you suspect.”

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107. “You can’t be friends with a droid.”

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108. “It’s happening,” he says. “Jakku.” “I know.” “It’s gonna be one helluva battle. It might get bad.” “I know that, too.” He chews his lip. “It feels weird, doesn’t it?” “Not being there, you mean.” “Yeah. You, me, Luke. Chewie. The Falcon. Those two walking talking garbage cans. It feels weird we’re not part of it.” “We’ve got our own adventure.” She pats her belly. “End of an era,” he says. “And the start of a new one.”

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109. “Ackbar interjects: “But we also must recognize the Empire’s ability to play the long game. Our victory over Endor was fortunate, but the Empire orchestrated that trap with great patience.”

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110. “I heard that if you complain it reprograms your brain like a computer virus and it just makes you more and more unhappy, so I’m going to stay positive because I bet the opposite is true, too.”

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111. “And in the months since the destruction of the Empire’s dread battle station, we have already liberated countless planets in the name of the Alliance.”

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112. “The tyrant Palpatine is dead. But the fight isn’t over. The war goes on even as the Empire’s power diminishes. But we are here for you. Know that wherever you are, no matter how far out into the Outer Rim you dwell, the New Republic is coming to help. Already we’ve captured dozens of Imperial capital ships and Destroyers –.”

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113. “Democracy is not in need of defense. People are.”

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114. “That is how science and medicine are practiced best, though – we are best when we admit our ignorance up front, and then attempt to fill the darkness of not-knowing with the light of information and knowledge.”

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115. “This is Wedge Antilles of the New Republic. I am trapped on the Star Destroyer Vigilance in the space above Akiva, and I am in –.”

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116. “Florida: America’s hot, moist land-wang.”

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117. “We laugh so that we don’t scream.”

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118. “And the lone Jedi that exists – the son of Anakin Skywalker – possesses an untouchable soul. At least for now.”

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119. “Buying gifts for a kid. Can we get him a cute little cape and a mustache so he looks like old Uncle Lando?” Lobot.”

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120. “The Wookiee tilts his head back and ululates a loud, joyful growl, then wraps his impossible arms around the smuggler. Solo looks like a child snatched up by an eager parent – for a moment his whole body lifts up off the ground, his legs kicking as the Wookiee purrs and barks.”

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121. “He’s heard tales of the Clone Wars -tales spoken by his own father. He knows how war goes. It’s not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.”

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122. “The adults, though. They don’t say much about him. Or to him. And no other Gungans come to see him, either. Nobody even says his name.”

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123. “Who hasn’t looked around their work environment and played the “What around here could be a weapon?” game?”

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124. “We need to get back to the Alliance – ” She corrects herself. That’s old thinking. “The New Republic.”

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125. “One helmeted cop is flung from his vehicle. The other crawls out onto the hood of his speeder, opening fire with a pair of blasters – just as a hunk of stone cracks him in the helmet, knocking him to the ground.”

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126. “You wouldn’t call yourself a runner if you quit every race your ran halfway through.”

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127. “I want soldiers who hate what they had to do and fear having to ever do it again.” “And if that means we lose the war?” “Then we lose the war by keeping ourselves.” That.”

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128. “If one wants power, one must take it.”

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129. “Showing it off – and not caring who cared – was a sign of strength. So now she trembles.”

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130. “And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth.”

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131. “From the box, he withdraws a helmet. Pitted and pocked, as if with some kind of acid. But still – he raps his knuckles on it. The Mandalorians knew how to make armor, didn’t they? “Look at this,” he says, holding it up. “Mandalorian battle armor. Whole box. Complete set, by the looks of it. Been through hell and back. I think my boss will appreciate this.”

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132. “Honestly, you ask me, I think it’s aliens,” she said, fast putting an end to her moment as the voice of sanity.”

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133. “Conflict is the food that feeds the reader. It’s a spicy hell-broth that nourishes.”

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134. “Fine. Whatever. She’s so unpleasant. Beautiful, sure, but it’s like putting a dress on a badger. Pretty dress. Nice face. Still a badger.”

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135. “Rebellions work. We’ve seen it. We’ve helped make it happen.”

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136. “It is vital we demilitarize our government so that a galactic war cannot happen like this again.”

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137. “Hey, pal. You still know how to contact the other refugees? Roshyk, Hrrgn, Kirratha, and them?” Group of a half-dozen Wookiees who escaped Kessel and got away from the Empire when nobody else could. Group of the meanest, hairiest brutes.”

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138. “Chewbacca’s back home, looking for his family. Luke’s searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo’s got nothing to smuggle, nowhere to gamble, no foolish Rebellion to fight for. He’s like the Falcon: retired to a hangar somewhere, waiting for something, anything, to happen.”

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139. “Old books, the kind that give off the smell of dust and decay, an odor Balastair associates with the scent of pure knowledge. Knowledge of new things. Knowledge of new places. Every book a doorway – a cabinet of curiosities opening to a new land.”

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140. “Here’s how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it’s not just biting our ass, but it’s already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left.”

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141. “He has never won a game of Galactic Expansion against the repurposed interrogator droid. But he’s close now. It’s never been this close.”

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142. “Somehow, the disappearance of coffee feels worse than the disappearance of all humankind.”

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143. “Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It’s stuff that doesn’t fly by tropes or adhere to rules – appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in the eyes of the rules and don’t play by social norms as much as adults do.”

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144. “Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body.”

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145. “The future is suddenly unpinned – evolving, spinning, leaping about like a panicked tree-loormor.”

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146. “Fetches cups of caf.”

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147. “Everything else is coming apart, but we are going to do the opposite. We are going to come together.”

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148. “Sometimes the work emerged out of intent – the desire to make a specific thing. But just as often, what she created was not of her design, but, rather, was like archaeology: It was more of an uncovering, as if the artist’s job was simply to find what the material was trying to hide. And then wrestle it to the surface, so that all could see. Or, in her case, cut the trapped spirit free.”

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149. “There is no quality of soul more subtle than non-violence and no virtue of spirit greater than reverence for life.”

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150. “Question marks were shaped like a hook for a reason...”

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