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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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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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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Oh, Val, said Father. All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier. No greatness, then. Val, said Mother, goodness trumps greatness any day. Not in the history books, said Valentine. Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they? said Father.
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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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How short life is for fools.
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I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
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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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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
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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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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
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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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