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Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
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Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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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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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
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If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
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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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There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.
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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.
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Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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