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The barrier was only in my mind — which is true of this barrier as well. The more firmly I try to cross the barrier, the more firmly I'm rejected. Well, maybe it's the intention to cross the boundary that pushes me away.

Orson Scott Card
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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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

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For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

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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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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

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But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.

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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

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It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

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This is today's puzzle, he said. If the act of denial can be taken as proof of the crime, how can an innocent man defend himself?
The tithingmen caught him by the arms. Come along now, Mr. Emerson, and don't go trying any philosophy on us.
Oh, I wouldn't dream of it, said Waldo. Philosophy would be wasted against such sturdy-headed men as you.
Glad you know it, said the tithingman proudly. Wouldn't want you thinking we weren't true Christians.

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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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What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn't true?
It has problems, I admit.

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I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.

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When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

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