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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
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Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.
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You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
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It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.
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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
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Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
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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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I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender
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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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You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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