Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Orson Scott Card
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  5. So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. - Margaret George

More Quotes By Orson Scott Card
  1. 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...

  2. Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

  3. You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

  4. You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

  5. 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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