Orson Scott Card Quotes
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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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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Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
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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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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'
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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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'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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She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.
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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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'You must be a prophet right enough,' said Alvin Junior, 'cause I can’t understand a thing you said.'
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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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'I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.''I see him with a woman,' said Rien. 'That is what he miss the most.''I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,' said Dead Mary. 'That is what he fears the most.'
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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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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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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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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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.