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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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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
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When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
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Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
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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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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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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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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
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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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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation there were people who loved each other and people who did not it was a human world.
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Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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