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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
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So you love me, said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand, said Bean. You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice. That's nice, she said.
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