Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.
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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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Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.
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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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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
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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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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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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'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'
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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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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
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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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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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Love is random; fear is inevitable.
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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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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
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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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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 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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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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There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
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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.