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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. (Orson Scott Card)
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. View quote
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I listen to music constantly while writing. View quote
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more. View quote
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. View quote
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. View quote
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. View quote
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. View quote
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I buy way too many books. View quote
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. View quote
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. (Orson Scott Card)
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. View quote
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. View quote
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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. View quote
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She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now. View quote
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I want to see the king. Wonderful. I'm glad for you. Why are you so glad? Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant. View quote
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I'm losing Savanna. That's good. No one should own someone else. View quote
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Keep your freedom, keep your immortality, but somewhere along the line I hope you figure out what you're living forever for. What noble purpose you mean to achieve. Because you're no good to anyone here, not even yourselves. View quote
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else. View quote
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions. View quote
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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you. (Orson Scott Card)
I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone. View quote
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You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you. View quote
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time. View quote
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Why give you answers you wont believe? Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward. View quote
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