Daily Inspiration Quote by Aaron Allston

A clean little grenade of a line: it starts with the oldest oversimplification in the book and then refuses to finish the book. "There are two types of people in the world" is the setup for pub philosophy and personality tests, the kind of binary that pretends human beings sort neatly into columns. Allston twists the knife by adding "and I'm one of them", a punchline that collapses the entire categorizing impulse back onto the speaker. The missing second type becomes the joke. If everything gets reduced to two camps, the only thing you can say with certainty is where you stand; the rest is projection.

The intent feels less like cynicism than a novelist's play with point of view. Allston wrote in genres that live on archetypes and factions - sci-fi, fantasy, tie-in universes where "types" are often literalized (pilots vs. politicians, Jedi vs. Sith, rebels vs. empire). He knows the seduction of sorting: it makes a messy world legible fast. He also knows it's a narrative trick, not a moral truth.

Subtext: beware anyone selling you an easy taxonomy, including yourself. The line performs a quiet self-mockery: the speaker is caught mid-gesture, trying to sound wise and landing on something truer - that identity is often just the story we tell to justify our side. It's a wink at tribal thinking, but also a reminder that categories are tools, not destinies, and the loudest binaries usually reveal more about the person drawing the line than the people being divided.