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Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Orson Scott Card
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.
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I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
Orson Scott Card
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
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Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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He was only six, but he already knew that he hated it when he had to do what other people wanted, even when he knew that they were wrong. He didn’t want to be a soldier. He didn’t want to kill. He didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to obey stupid people.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
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'Lookit that,' he said. 'A lawyer who knows how to do something useful. That’s a miracle.'
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When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.
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For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.
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They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
Orson Scott Card