Orson Scott Card Quotes
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She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.
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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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The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.
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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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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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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.
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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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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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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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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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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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
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You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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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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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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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.