Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
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Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.
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You never needed anybody.If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.
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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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Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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There was the chance that someday he would surprise her, that she would turn to face her husband and find a stranger in his place, a stranger who didn't approve of her and didn't want her in his life anymore.
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And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.
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She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.
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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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No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
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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.
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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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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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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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The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.
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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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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
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Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning.