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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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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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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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When you really know someone, you can't hate him.
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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
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