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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right? I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me? Yes, she said. That's influenza, said Miro. Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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In order to learn, one must change one's mind.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val
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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.
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Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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