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"She thinks shes kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now."
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Orson Scott CardHe exuded confidence without ever looking as if he wanted to make sure — Orson Scott Card
"He exuded confidence without ever looking as if he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was."
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card
author1987–2003
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy
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"The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered."
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"A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it."
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"He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them."
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"He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more."
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"They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty."
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