Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

Orson Scott Card's Popular Quotes

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

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I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

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If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsi…

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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their clev…

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