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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“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.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."

"A habit. ”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“You could take it for granted that the Security Police invariably made fools of themselves.

Stieg Larsson. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (p. 230). (Function). Kindle Edition.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“all women know a rape victim, no man knows a rapist”.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray