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How short life is for fools.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.
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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
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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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Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
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Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship.
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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
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Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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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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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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