The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided … - Orson Scott Card

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Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.

Orson Scott Card

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

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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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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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