Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, … - Orson Scott Card

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Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives.

Orson Scott Card

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Life, Tragedy, Dies, Wasted

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

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Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

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Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

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The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

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I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

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Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

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Amy Tan

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

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David Duchovny

I don't know about the baby, but I will be interested to see, like anyone who's a fan of the show [how it's resolved]," he said, and then joked, "They'll have to resolve me while I'm not there, so I hope they don't say, 'Oh yeah, Mulder's gone, what an asshole. He had a baby with me, he kissed me and then he left. '

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Nirmala Srivastava

Enrichment only comes through purification.

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