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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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I am a creature of chemicals.
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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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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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