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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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For children love is a feeling for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
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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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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
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I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
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It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would.
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All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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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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