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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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I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
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Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
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It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
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