Orson Scott Card Quotes
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
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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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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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Love is random; fear is inevitable.
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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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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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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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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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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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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.
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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
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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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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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That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.
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'I’m a terrible salesman,' he finally said. 'I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.'
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When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.