And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Orson Scott Card

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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?

Orson Scott Card


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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

Orson Scott Card


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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

Orson Scott Card


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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Orson Scott Card

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The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Orson Scott Card

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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.

Orson Scott Card

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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.

Orson Scott Card

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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card


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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

Orson Scott Card


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