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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. That's right, said Miro. Ender smiled. And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.
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