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  1. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
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  2. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    You get used to being naked, that's the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who's looking and and spend your time trying to keep yourself from being flayed alive. He got shy again when they entered the village, but once he decided simply to let the gawkers gawk, he found himself much more interested in what he was seeing than what they were.
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  3. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.
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  4. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    {Ruthie} ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
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  5. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.
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  6. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose.
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  7. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.
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  8. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works its will in the world.
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  9. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
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  10. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.
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  11. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.
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  12. Orson Scott Card _ Enchantment

    The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.
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