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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: Tut-tut, what at botch that was? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
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Quim, she said, don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.
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Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.
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Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
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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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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
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When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
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