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Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going abo...

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In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just...

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individua...

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But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves ...

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Orson Scott CardEnder's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose ...

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Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with on...

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I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.

I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid.

For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in ...

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Salman RushdieThe Ground Beneath Her Feet

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...

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I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? ...

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These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged an...

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For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an o...

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The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

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It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ...

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.