As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

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Capitalism Garden Getting Plant

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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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Holding Least Metaphors Most

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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

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Able Being Causes Class

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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

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Against Behavior Books Homosexual

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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

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Always Lies Live Stories

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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

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Another Choice Control Created

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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

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Alien Believe Different DifferentPeople

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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

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Again All-Time Answer Ask

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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

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Continue Elaborate Elite Fall

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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

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Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane

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I listen to music constantly while writing.

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Constantly Listen Music While

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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.

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Could Decades Few Hope

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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

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Found History Lived Never

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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

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Am Before Began Civilization

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I buy way too many books.

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Books Buy Many Too

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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

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Am Children Father Good

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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

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Actor Becoming College Director

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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

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Depending Going Hour Hours

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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

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Fun Hard Having HavingFun

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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

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About Best Day End

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

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Among Most Never Possessions

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You who speak languages, you are such liars.

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Languages Liars Speak Who

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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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Itself Mind Only Own

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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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Because Everything First Learning

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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

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Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

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Also Defeat Enemy Enough

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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

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Everything First Ground Ideas

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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

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Behave Benefit Community Every

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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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"30 Orson Scott Card Quotes & Sayings

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Orson Scott Card

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Orson Scott Card

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Orson Scott Card

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Orson Scott Card

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Orson Scott Card

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Orson Scott Card

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Orson Scott Card

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Orson Scott Card

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Orson Scott Card

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Orson Scott Card

I buy way too many books.

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Orson Scott Card

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Orson Scott Card

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Orson Scott Card

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

Orson Scott Card

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Orson Scott Card

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Orson Scott Card

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Orson Scott Card

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.

Orson Scott Card

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