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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
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Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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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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When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
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One mind can think only of its own questions it rarely surprises itself.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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In order to learn, one must change one's mind.
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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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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't
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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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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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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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