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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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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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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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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. That's right, said Miro. Ender smiled. And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
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Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
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Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
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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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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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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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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.
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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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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
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Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
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Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would.
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I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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