Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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The others are even more likely to obey their god.Which is? It dangles between their legs.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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Road poured out into a place of meadows and a few White man’s buildings. Lots of wagons. Horses posted and tied, grazing on the meadow grass. Sounds of metal hammers ringing, chopping of axes in the wood, screech of saws going back and forth, all kinds of White-man forest-killing sounds. A White man’s town.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.