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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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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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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
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The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
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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.
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
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