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What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.Orson Scott Card
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America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.Orson Scott Card
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I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.Orson Scott Card
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.Orson Scott Card
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And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich."" Money and talent aren't the same thing."" That’s because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors, " said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.Orson Scott Card
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You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.Orson Scott Card
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Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.Orson Scott Card
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She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.Orson Scott Card