Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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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?
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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 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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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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'This is Alvin Smith,' said Cooper. 'He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.'
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You know, if you hurt people enough, eventually they’ll all call you whatever you want. Maker. King. Captain. Boss. Master. Holy One. Pick your title, you can beat people into calling you that. But you don’t change yourself a bit. All you do is change the meanings of those words, so they all mean the same thing: Bully.
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'Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?''No trouble at all,' said Calvin, annoyed. 'Why do you think I want to cause trouble?''Because you are awake.'
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'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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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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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
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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.
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If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.
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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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The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.
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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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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.
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I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.