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My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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You killed more people than anybody in history. Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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