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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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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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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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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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The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
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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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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
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Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
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Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
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