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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.
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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.
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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.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
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