

“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”
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“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
― Alvin Journeyman
― Alvin Journeyman

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress

“As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
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