Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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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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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.
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'Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.''Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.' Alvin chuckled grimly. 'Oh, that mouth you’ve got.''You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.'
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'You can afford me,' said Jane. 'I’m cheap and you’re rich.'
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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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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away.
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'Don’t press her,' said Cooper. 'If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.'
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I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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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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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.
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She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.
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I buy way too many books.
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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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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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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.