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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
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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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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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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
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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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Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
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People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
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It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
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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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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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Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
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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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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
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