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Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
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Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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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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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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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
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I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
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When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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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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Sickness and healing are in every heart death and deliverance in every hand.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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