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When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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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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It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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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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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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If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
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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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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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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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I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
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Let's fly away and live forever
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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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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
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It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
Orson Scott Card
How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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