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c73909d
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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pretend
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Orson Scott Card |
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18bba7c
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.
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understanding
hate
love
epiphany
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Orson Scott Card |
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8b66be4
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If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
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success
just-do-it
team
inaction
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Orson Scott Card |
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64ce1b7
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Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty.
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humour
funny
stupid
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Orson Scott Card |
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e27b4a0
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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
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Orson Scott Card |
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fb02b9c
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I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender
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Orson Scott Card |
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435b314
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It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
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Orson Scott Card |
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5d5961f
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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the ..
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Orson Scott Card |
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ec67968
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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
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life-lessons
ender-wiggin
ender
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Orson Scott Card |
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2d29367
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Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
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Orson Scott Card |
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2b82bb6
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I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
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truth
wisdom
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Orson Scott Card |
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5c87271
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today.
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orson-scott-card
personhood
introduction
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Orson Scott Card |
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997a987
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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Orson Scott Card |
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869f289
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When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.
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understanding-others
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Orson Scott Card |
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f069c69
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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humanity
mazer-rackham
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Orson Scott Card |
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d5cf384
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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
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pain
identity
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Orson Scott Card |
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743d1e1
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There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
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words
greatness
control
power
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Orson Scott Card |
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81762bb
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Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."
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Orson Scott Card |
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7becb46
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Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins--thoroughly.
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killing
graff
ender-wiggin
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Orson Scott Card |
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817d725
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You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
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Orson Scott Card |
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d3a007e
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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
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Orson Scott Card |
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9d50329
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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war
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Orson Scott Card |
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e9b679e
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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
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loss
life
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Orson Scott Card |
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3a7b23d
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The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
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Orson Scott Card |
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888fffc
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An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what ..
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learning-from-enemies
learning-from-others
mazer-rackham
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Orson Scott Card |
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b14426d
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In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
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suicide
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Orson Scott Card |
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7cf92af
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me--to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
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freedom
necessity
service
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Orson Scott Card |
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4b79875
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
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ender-wiggin
ender
strategy
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Orson Scott Card |
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57a6d6d
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She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
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live-life
sensuality
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Orson Scott Card |
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e57a0f0
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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truth
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Orson Scott Card |
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c21e1fa
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He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a12fb4c
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Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
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Orson Scott Card |
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ea2da98
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I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
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disgrace
dignity
honor
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Orson Scott Card |
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3984470
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Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
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Orson Scott Card |
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f095e4c
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We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
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happiness
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Orson Scott Card |
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df8358c
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Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief.
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rhinoceros-times
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Orson Scott Card |
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9997363
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Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.
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Orson Scott Card |
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d72c824
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Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
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friendship
home
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Orson Scott Card |
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d4b4690
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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours."
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relationships
symptoms
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Orson Scott Card |
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ab1fb42
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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a3b2938
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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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Orson Scott Card |
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2c30342
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
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Orson Scott Card |
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a6ee370
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My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And
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Orson Scott Card |
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d5784c9
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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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Orson Scott Card |