Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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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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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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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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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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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
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Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'Look at what you made me do!' That's the moral universe that they always lived in.
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I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.
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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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'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'
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This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.
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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.
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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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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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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.