Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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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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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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For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
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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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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
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They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
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'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
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Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.
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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.