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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.
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If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
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The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
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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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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
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It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
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It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.
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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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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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