Orson Scott Card Quotes on Reality
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Ignorance and deception can't save anybody. Knowing saves them:
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You're making us very tired, with all your thinking of stupid imaginary impossible things.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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It's tragic isn't it, that we don't always get what we want in this world.
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I see that you are a person who refuses to revise his view of the would. You can only bear to live in a world where all the bad things happen to you are someone else's fault, where everyone must have conspired against you to deprive you of your due. Unfortunately, that world happens not to be the real world
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You're still young so you still think the whole universe revolves around you. But the fact is that it doesn't
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Will you shut up about your envy of [them]? For one day, for one hour, for one minute will you just stop and give a thought to reality?
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
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He'd find out soon enough what losing everything could mean
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Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable
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All I could think of was how close I came to losing you not close enough. How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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They say that love conquers all. They say that because they're idiots. Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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[He] didn't like dreams because they were even worse than his real life.
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What an ugly world you choose to live in Not neat and pretty like yours, not bound about by rules the way yours is. Laws and principals, theories and hypotheses, may they cover your eyes and keep you happy
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Gradually he began to realize that despite all the secrets she knew and all the strange powers that she seemed to have, she was not an angel or any other kind of supernatural being. She was a woman, still young, yet with a great deal of pain and wisdom in her eyes. She was a woman, and she was his friend. Why should that have surprised him? It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life
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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach
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Ansset watched, keeping his promise but wishing with all his heart that somewhere in his mind there was a wall he could hide behind. Unfortunately, he was too sane.
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew
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You don't exist, you can't be real she means it one way, but I believe it another
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Power was my dream. You're real
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What is reality?
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Aren't you the strong one. Aren't you brave, to insist on reality. You never could face your own dreams.
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There are stranger things on heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy