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A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.
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. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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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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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.
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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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He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
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the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
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One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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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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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
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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.
Orson Scott Card
When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
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