Orson Scott Card Quotes
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You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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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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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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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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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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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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'He’s young,' she said.'We’ve all been guilty of that sin,' said Alvin. 'And some never get over it.'
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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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I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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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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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
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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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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?