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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
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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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A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.
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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
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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.
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
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The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship.
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We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
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Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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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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