Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
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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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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
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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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Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.
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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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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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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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'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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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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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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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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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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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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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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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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'Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?''Few measure up to my standards, but most try.'
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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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'What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?''It has problems, I admit.'
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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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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.