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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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All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.
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To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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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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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.
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I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would.
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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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Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
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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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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
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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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