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Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Orson Scott Card
Writing, Past, Ideas

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Orson Scott Card
Past, Long, Acting
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.100, Macmillan

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

Orson Scott Card
Writing, Past, Ideas

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Orson Scott Card
Past, Fabric, Hundred
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.858, Macmillan

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Orson Scott Card
Past, Seeing, I Can
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.193, Macmillan

I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

Orson Scott Card
Children, Independent, Past

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