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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.
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