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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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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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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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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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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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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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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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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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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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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'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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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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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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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
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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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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.