Orson Scott Card Quotes
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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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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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'Look at what you made me do!' That's the moral universe that they always lived in.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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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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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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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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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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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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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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'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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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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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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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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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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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.