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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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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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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
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Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
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I am a creature of chemicals.
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Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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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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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.
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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
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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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We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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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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