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We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
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Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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