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Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
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I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
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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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He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.
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From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
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For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
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Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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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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History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
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I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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