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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
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Love is random; fear is inevitable.
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'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
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You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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'Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?''No trouble at all,' said Calvin, annoyed. 'Why do you think I want to cause trouble?''Because you are awake.'
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You never needed anybody.If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.
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That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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How short life is for fools.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.
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He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
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Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.
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And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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