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

Orson Scott Card

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

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" The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. "

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" I listen to music constantly while writing. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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. "

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" Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. "

Orson Scott Card

" The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. "

Orson Scott Card

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

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

Orson Scott Card

" 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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" Working is hard and distracts from having fun. "

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

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

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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. "

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. "

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

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

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

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

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. "

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

Orson Scott Card

" You who speak languages, you are such liars. "

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" I realized that 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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