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Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
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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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
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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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