Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
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Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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'Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,' said Tenkswa-Tawa. 'That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.'
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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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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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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
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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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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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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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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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No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
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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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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 are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?