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

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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  2. Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging. – Orson Scott Card
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  4. Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I. – Orson Scott Card
  5. 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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  9. So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other. – Orson Scott Card
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  11. Order and disorder’, said the speaker, ‘they each have their beauty. – Orson Scott Card
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  14. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it. – Orson Scott Card
  15. I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it. – Orson Scott Card
  16. My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you. – Orson Scott Card
  17. I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
  18. A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization… One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. – Orson Scott Card
  19. I’ve learned all I’m ever going to learn from you. – Orson Scott Card
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