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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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Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
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What am I now, Alai? Still good. At what? At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe. I don't want to go to the end of the universe. So where do you want to go? They'll follow you. I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
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Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
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Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
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There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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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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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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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
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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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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
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I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
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We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
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Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
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People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
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