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Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
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The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
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The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
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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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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
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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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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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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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A broken clock is right two times a day.
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No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.
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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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