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Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?
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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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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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When you really know someone, you can't hate him.
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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 always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
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History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake. A habit.
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When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
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I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God. Then who are you? The personnel officer who hired God.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
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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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The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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