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Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
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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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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.
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When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
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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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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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