Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
From Orson Scott Card
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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