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Tig was a unique element with all valences open.

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

be what you are. Don't try to be Sally or Johnny or Fred next door; be yourself.

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.

You're a storyteller, Alice Edevane, Ben had told her late one afternoon, as the river tripped coolly by and the pigeons came home to roost. I've never met a person with such a clever imagination,...

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the...

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

See that little black thing sticking up?" Gurgeh looked. There was a little black bulb poking up through the surface of the red mud. "Yes." "That's his dick." Gurgeh looked suspiciously at the other...

Acheron always says that our scars are there to remind us of out pasts, of where we've been and what we've gone through. But that pain doesn't have to drive or determine our future. We can rise about...

Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through-the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into...

The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability-true stability-is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.

Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that's what he's done. They took a few

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

Don't have children until you're ready to be a creator and give birth to creators. It is wrong to have children out of need, it is wrong to use a child to soothe your loneliness, it is wrong to create...

Fang pondered. It always amazes me how he's able to seem so calm at the absolute worst times. Sometimes he seems like a droid-or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

The oranges were more plentiful than usual that year. They glowed in their arbours of burnished green leaf like lanterns, flickering up there among the sunny woods. It was as if they were eager to...

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen his work.

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born. That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life...

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

Jacob smiled from ear to ear when he shook the man's hand on stage. The man then handed him a trophy.

himself first and last. He'd had to, in order to survive and then to succeed. One was every bit as important to him as the other. The habit was difficult to

from a bow, and had

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men

I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.