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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
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You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.
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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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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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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
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If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
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You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
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Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.
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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.
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For children love is a feeling for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
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The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
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The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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