Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
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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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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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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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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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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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Something had been given back to him. And because she had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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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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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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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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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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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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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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He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
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I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.
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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?