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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
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
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Byron S. Walley
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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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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
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That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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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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If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
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I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake. A habit.
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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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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
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You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
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