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We have to go. I'm almost happy here. (Orson Scott Card)
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. View quote
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The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. View quote
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. View quote
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Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won. View quote
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We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams. View quote
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And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves? View quote
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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know. View quote
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Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. View quote
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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. View quote
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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. (Orson Scott Card)
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow. View quote
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No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. View quote
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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it. View quote
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. View quote
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have. View quote
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A broken clock is right two times a day. View quote
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. View quote
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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. View quote
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This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. View quote
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse. (Orson Scott Card)
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth. View quote
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women. View quote
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He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding. View quote
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Love is random; fear is inevitable. View quote
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