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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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What am I now, Alai? Still good. At what? At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe. I don't want to go to the end of the universe. So where do you want to go? They'll follow you. I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
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So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
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Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
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For children love is a feeling for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?
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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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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.
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