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It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.
Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.
There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.
I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.
Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
It's darn today, damn tomorrow, and next week it'll be goddamn.
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.
Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle
It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had.
Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.
Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.
I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.
I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.
Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.