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I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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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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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.
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You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
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It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
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America is an empire that does not wish to be one we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
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In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.
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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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I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
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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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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
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