Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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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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Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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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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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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'I don’t hold with prophets,' said Alvin. 'Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.'
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What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.
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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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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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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 don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
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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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You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.
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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 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.