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-- Orson Scott Card

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“As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”

Source : Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company
“The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.”
“Composition has almost always been solitary.”
“Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.”

Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel
“I don't make promises.”

Source : Source: www.mcall.com
“We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.”
“You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.”
“Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.”

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