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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
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Oh, Val, said Father. All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier. No greatness, then. Val, said Mother, goodness trumps greatness any day. Not in the history books, said Valentine. Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they? said Father.
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I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
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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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A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.
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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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Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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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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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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Sickness and healing are in every heart death and deliverance in every hand.
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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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Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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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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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right? I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me? Yes, she said. That's influenza, said Miro. Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.
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