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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
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Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
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I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
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You killed more people than anybody in history. Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
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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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Sickness and healing are in every heart death and deliverance in every hand.
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So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
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