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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. That's right, said Miro. Ender smiled. And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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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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You can't change what you don't understand.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
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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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The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
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Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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