Orson Scott Card Quotes
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'You must be a prophet right enough,' said Alvin Junior, 'cause I can’t understand a thing you said.'
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.
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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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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
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He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn’t need no philosopher to tell him that.
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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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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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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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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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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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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.
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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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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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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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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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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?