Orson Scott Card Quotes
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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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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 don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
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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 can’t change what you don’t understand.
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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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'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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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
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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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He wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.
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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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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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'Our savior will resurrect us,' said Peggy, 'but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.'
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'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.
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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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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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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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It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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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.