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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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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
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Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I am a creature of chemicals.
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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