Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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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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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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All children are manipulators.
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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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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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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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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
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How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?
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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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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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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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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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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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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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'Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.''Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.'
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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
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Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
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He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.
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The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.