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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't fantasy is about what couldn't be.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
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I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
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One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
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Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
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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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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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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val
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You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. That's right, said Miro. Ender smiled. And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.
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I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
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He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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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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