Orson Scott Card Quotes
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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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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He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.
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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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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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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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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.
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I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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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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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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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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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.
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Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.