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Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have...more

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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

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It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all yo...more

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But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spo...more

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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people wh...more

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You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly."You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful.""Memory does play tricks on us.""No. Y...more

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...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are u...more

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Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.""He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I underst...more