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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
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Byron S. Walley
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The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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