Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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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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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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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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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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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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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.
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You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
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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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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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Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.
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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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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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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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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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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.