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a0de0f8
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Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life
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Orson Scott Card |
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e7076a5
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship."
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nikolai-delphiki
friendship
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Orson Scott Card |
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8d2c3e2
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Darkness bound them closer than light.
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Orson Scott Card |
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4b8289f
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the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
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nikolai-delphiki
fair
brothers
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Orson Scott Card |
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534c3ac
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Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?
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Orson Scott Card |
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a3198ff
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Let's fly away and live forever
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good
life
relativity
forever
genius
crazy
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Orson Scott Card |
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4f4c01b
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That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. ... Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.
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Orson Scott Card |
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e82ede6
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The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.
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Orson Scott Card |
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1985670
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Will people really go?" "People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world." --
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Orson Scott Card |
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d3e03ff
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I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.
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love
ender
child
childhood
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Orson Scott Card |
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8952a99
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Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
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warnings-about-society
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Orson Scott Card |
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d3f2132
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Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b194495
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I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
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maturity
corruption
innocence
losing
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Orson Scott Card |
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5b244c2
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Once you get a brother, you don't give him up easy.
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nikolai-delphiki
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Orson Scott Card |
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d111774
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The have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
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power
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Orson Scott Card |
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4056e67
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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.
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sympathy
jealousy
ender
yearning
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Orson Scott Card |
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246e81f
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Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity.
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Orson Scott Card |
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fb3bae4
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Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things." "Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot."
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sister-carlotta
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Orson Scott Card |
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9ed6c1d
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You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.
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Orson Scott Card |
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3b3a6d2
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I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
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past
retribution
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Orson Scott Card |
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ae09064
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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be."
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Orson Scott Card |
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a8f1197
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I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I'll do it, if I can. You don't have to do this alone. Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn't true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn't bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be -- the k..
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trust
friendship
bean
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Orson Scott Card |
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6857395
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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good."
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religion
humor
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Orson Scott Card |
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27e7518
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nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!"
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Orson Scott Card |
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f166dbf
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Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.
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inspiration
religion
olhado
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Orson Scott Card |
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662b828
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The trouble with coins is, when one face is up, the other face is down.
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Orson Scott Card |
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3b26dce
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The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees, then that is what the tribe is. Even though some of the oldest trees here came from warriors of two different tribes, fallen in battle. We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe." Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman [member of another sentient species]. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it ..
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Orson Scott Card |
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0dc9eca
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Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit."
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lackwit
puppets
ender
orson
shadow
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Orson Scott Card |
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c71ec65
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When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed.
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Orson Scott Card |
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103bb4b
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a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
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danger
human-nature
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Orson Scott Card |
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8b2de77
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Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody, you think, This is a god. This is perfection. But I can promise you that there's somebody else somewhere else who'll make your god look like a maggot by comparison. And somebody smarter or stronger or better in some way. So let me tell you what ..
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god
oppression
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Orson Scott Card |
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f973a75
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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades."
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personality
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Orson Scott Card |
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372e733
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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
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Orson Scott Card |
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fa5cf66
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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
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philosophy
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Orson Scott Card |
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cb0eb95
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it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't
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Orson Scott Card |
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da90836
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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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self-interest
people-skills
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Orson Scott Card |
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ea96fd4
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
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Orson Scott Card |
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0f34d44
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Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?" "I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable. "Well, thanks." "You're welcome."
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Orson Scott Card |
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46624a4
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But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.
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reputation
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Orson Scott Card |
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37d958d
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Earthborn animals do this thing, inside their brains--a sort of firing-off of synapses, controlled insanity. While they're asleep. The part of their brain that records sight or sound, it's firing off every hour or two while they sleep; even when all the sights and sounds are complete random nonsense, their brains just keep on trying to assemble it into something sensible. They try to make stories out of it. It's complete random nonsense wit..
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inspirational
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Orson Scott Card |
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8dfe653
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A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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Orson Scott Card |
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b042aa3
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Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?
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Orson Scott Card |
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d942965
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A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
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society
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Orson Scott Card |
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d5cf8c0
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For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
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admire
teachers-and-learners
student
teacher
teaching
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Orson Scott Card |