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- There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
- Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the…
- I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
- You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it…
- You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.
- I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
- 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…
- Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
- Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I…
- A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
- Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved…
- Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val
- I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
- I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
- You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing…
- the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that…
- Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this:…
- Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to…
- Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need…
- The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,
- I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
- Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to…
- You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
- From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always…
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