Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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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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There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.
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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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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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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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'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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'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.
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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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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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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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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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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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'You can afford me,' said Jane. 'I’m cheap and you’re rich.'
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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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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I buy way too many books.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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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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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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As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.
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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.