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There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
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The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
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Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
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Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
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With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
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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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A broken clock is right two times a day.
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The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
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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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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
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