Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.
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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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I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.
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You always do that. Make all the questions harder.I make them truer.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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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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She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'
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Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
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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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Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.
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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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How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
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May the day when you need courage never come.Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.
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Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.
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I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.
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'Black with hate,' said Becca. 'You are gathering your people with hate.''Can you imagine conducting a war with love?' asked Ta-Kumsaw.'That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,' she said gently.
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Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.
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Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
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He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.