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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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Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing deception by the officers was another but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
Orson Scott Card
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
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I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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