Orson Scott Card Quotes
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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Something had been given back to him. And because she had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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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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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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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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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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''Waterloo was won,'' quoted Rackham, ''on the playing fields of Eton.'' 'What the hell does that mean?' asked Carn Carby. 'You never even went to Eton.' 'It was an analogy,' said Rackham. 'If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated.'
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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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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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'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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Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
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'You,' said Purity, 'have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.''But surrounded by Americans as I am,' said Cooper, 'my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.'
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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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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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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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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.