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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question. (Orson Scott Card)
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. View quote
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I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. View quote
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today. View quote
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. View quote
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. View quote
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Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. View quote
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Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. View quote
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. View quote
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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. View quote
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Madness, and then illumination. (Orson Scott Card)
Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet. View quote
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For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment. View quote
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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. View quote
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through. View quote
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You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are. View quote
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And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name. View quote
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. View quote
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Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon. View quote
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Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. View quote
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the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Orson Scott Card)
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. View quote
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None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. View quote
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We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness-the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction. View quote
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you. View quote
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