The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means … - Orson Scott Card

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Orson Scott Card

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.

Construct, Mean, Memories, Remember, Story, Thinking

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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.

Real, Fiction, World, Oneself

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.

Happy, Happy Endings, Opposites, Sad, Sometimes, Unsatisfying

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

Believe, Thinking, Want, Understand, Love

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Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.

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