Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
("Speaker for the Dead")
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.Orson Scott Card
When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.
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I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
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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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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
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