Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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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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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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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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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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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.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.
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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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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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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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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
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Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.