Orson Scott Card Quotes
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That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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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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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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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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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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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
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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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Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.
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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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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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What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.
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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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What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.