Orson Scott Card Quotes
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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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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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
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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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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
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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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Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.
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'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
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It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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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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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
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A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.
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We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.
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That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.
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Even the most 'Rational' people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.
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'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
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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.
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Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.