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The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
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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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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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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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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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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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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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
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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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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
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Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.
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You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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