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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.
Orson Scott Card
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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'Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.''Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.'
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
Orson Scott Card
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Orson Scott Card -
I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
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I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.
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This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.
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Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.
Orson Scott Card
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That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
Orson Scott Card
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Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'Look at what you made me do!' That's the moral universe that they always lived in.
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'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.
Orson Scott Card