Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
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'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'
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No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
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'I don’t plan to die for any cause,' said Jim Bowie. 'Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.'
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
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You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.
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''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
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To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?That's how most men live, and don't even know it.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.
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Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.
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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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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?That's where I've always stood.
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We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
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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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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it’s always pleasantly.
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The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.
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Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.
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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.