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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
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Dinah Kirkham
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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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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
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Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
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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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Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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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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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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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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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
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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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I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
Orson Scott Card
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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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Orson Scott Card
I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
Orson Scott Card
Oh, Val, said Father. All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier. No greatness, then. Val, said Mother, goodness trumps greatness any day. Not in the history books, said Valentine. Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they? said Father.
Orson Scott Card
