Orson Scott Card Quotes
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
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You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.
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More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
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There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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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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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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He was only six, but he already knew that he hated it when he had to do what other people wanted, even when he knew that they were wrong. He didn’t want to be a soldier. He didn’t want to kill. He didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to obey stupid people.
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The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.
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When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
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You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.