Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--o…

Orson Scott Card
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Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2002). Ender's Shadow, p.224, Macmillan
You who speak languages, you are such liars. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2013). The Ender Quintet, p.516, Macmillan
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2013). The Ender Quintet, p.1200, Macmillan

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

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