Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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All children are manipulators.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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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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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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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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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.
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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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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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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 must be a prophet right enough,' said Alvin Junior, 'cause I can’t understand a thing you said.'
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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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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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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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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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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.