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. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.
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