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“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
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