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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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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
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Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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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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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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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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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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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 essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
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I'm crazy, said Ender. But I think I'm OK.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
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We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
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You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.
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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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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
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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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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
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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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