Orson Scott Card Quotes
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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Keep your freedom, keep your immortality, but somewhere along the line I hope you figure out what you're living forever for. What noble purpose you mean to achieve. Because you're no good to anyone here, not even yourselves.
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
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I wanted your songs.You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.
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I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.
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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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That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
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Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
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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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I interpreted all you did as weakness - but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
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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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You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
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'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
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You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.
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Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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I want to see the king.Wonderful. I'm glad for you.Why are you so glad?Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.
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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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It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.
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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
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Love is random; fear is inevitable.