Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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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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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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'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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'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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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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'You can afford me,' said Jane. 'I’m cheap and you’re rich.'
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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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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 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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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 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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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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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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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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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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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.