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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
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She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.
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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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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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