I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram.
"We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.
Tags: rationalization chapter-20
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.
Orson Scott CardFor now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.
Orson Scott CardI don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
Orson Scott CardWhat 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 CardTags: truth understanding-others understanding-oneself-and-others
There is nothing that doesn't decay. Some things decay more slowly than others, that's all.
Orson Scott CardSo this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind. This is the powerful, horrible longing that made Mother marry that miserable tyrant I had to call Father. How many unbelievably stupid heroes in stories did insanely dangerous things because they were in love? More to the pint, how many insane things am I going to do because of it?
Orson Scott Cardaislarle lo suficiente
para no ahogar su creatividad, pues en caso contrario adoptará el sistema imperante aquí y le
echaremos a perder
Tenía miedo, y el miedo le ponía serio.
Orson Scott CardA person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.
Orson Scott CardTags: science-fiction existentialism reputation young-adult
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