Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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'I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.''I see him with a woman,' said Rien. 'That is what he miss the most.''I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,' said Dead Mary. 'That is what he fears the most.'
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
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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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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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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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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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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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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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'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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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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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
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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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That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.
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Here’s the bottom line. I promise you it’s entirely legal, and he can’t touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They’re designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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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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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.