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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.
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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.
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It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
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Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
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For children love is a feeling for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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