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Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
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The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
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You will learn to defeat the enemy.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
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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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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
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Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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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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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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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 looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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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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