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That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val
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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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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
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With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
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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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The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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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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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
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