Orson Scott Card Quotes on Futility
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Life is a suicide mission.
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Like running hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them...and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone
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He had been a shark trying to gnaw away at the shore, sharp-toothed and dangerous, yet unworthy of his adversary
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The message seemed to be, you can't change anything and you'll end up dead so why try?