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An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. (Orson Scott Card)
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees. View quote
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The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie. View quote
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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head. View quote
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All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better- So why do I hate my life? View quote
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The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale. View quote
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Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. View quote
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The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice. View quote
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Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. View quote
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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway. View quote
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Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. (Orson Scott Card)
because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you. View quote
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Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable. View quote
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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world. View quote
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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. View quote
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Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire. View quote
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. View quote
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Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. View quote
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Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty. View quote
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are. View quote
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Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash. (Orson Scott Card)
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. View quote
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Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. View quote
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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” "That's a lie.” "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war. View quote
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But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war? View quote
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