Orson Scott Card Quotes
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To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.
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Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.
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Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause-and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause-one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.
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'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to.
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.
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She can’t help her red skin, and she isn’t heathen. In fact, she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.
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I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.