“When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.”

—  Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

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