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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.
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