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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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.
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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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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation there were people who loved each other and people who did not it was a human world.
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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
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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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You can't change what you don't understand.
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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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Let's fly away and live forever
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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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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
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