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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: Tut-tut, what at botch that was? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
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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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Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
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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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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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You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
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You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?
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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
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So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
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You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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Sickness and healing are in every heart death and deliverance in every hand.
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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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...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
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Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
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