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In the absence of understanding, that was a good a reason as any for living together and making babies and raising them up and throwing them out of the house and then going through the long slow decline together until one of them died and left the other alone again, understanding as little as ever about what their spouses really wanted, who they really were. Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
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[He] wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.
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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
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It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.
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She don't set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king—it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared—oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?
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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.
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An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
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Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.
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Around here, ma'am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain't eating then they lying.
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Alvin wondered if it was true—if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart's desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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I don't plan to die for any cause, said Jim Bowie. Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain't noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.
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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.
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Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
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Didn't he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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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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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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August 24, 1951
(age 72)
Bio:
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction.
Known for:
Ender's Game (1985)
Shadows Alive
Shadows in Flight (2012)
Speaker for the Dead (1986)
Ender's Shadow (1999)
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