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No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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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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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
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Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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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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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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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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Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
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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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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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How short life is for fools.
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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've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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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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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
Orson Scott Card
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.
Orson Scott Card
