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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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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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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
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You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
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Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.
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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
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A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.
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Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
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When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
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In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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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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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation there were people who loved each other and people who did not it was a human world.
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