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“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”

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Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card, born on August 24, 1951, is a renowned science fiction novelist from the United States. His works are known for their profound philosophical insights and rich imagination, with 'Ender's Game' series being particularly famous and influential in the science fiction genre. more

“Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.”

Way Love Different Age Moving Life Is Fall Newspapers Brands Dull Neighborhood Cigarette Day To Day Discussing Frivolous Dullness Day To Day Living

Book:Summer Crossing: A Novel

Source: Summer Crossing: A Novel

“Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.”

Ifs Men Mind Firsts Matter Legs Love And Marriage

Book:Summer Crossing: A Novel

Source: Summer Crossing: A Novel

“It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.”

Want Humans Children Littles Enough Wanted House Lines Common Ordinary Connections Wounded Ordinary Life

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