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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
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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What am I now, Alai? Still good. At what? At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe. I don't want to go to the end of the universe. So where do you want to go? They'll follow you. I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: Tut-tut, what at botch that was? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
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Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
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Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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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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