Orson Scott Card Quotes
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She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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'Don’t press her,' said Cooper. 'If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.'
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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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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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Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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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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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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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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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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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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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 never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.
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'Lookit that,' he said. 'A lawyer who knows how to do something useful. That’s a miracle.'
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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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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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.
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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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We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.