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Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams
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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 priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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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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You can't change what you don't understand.
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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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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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People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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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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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
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The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
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