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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We've seen the worst that men can do, pa, and been the worst that men can be. But that don't mean that someday we won't see the best, too. And if we can never be perfect after this, well, we can still be pretty good, can't we?
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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.
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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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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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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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The others are even more likely to obey their god.Which is? It dangles between their legs.
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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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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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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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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
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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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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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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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Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
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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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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
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Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
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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?