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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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Didn't he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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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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Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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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'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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I don't plan to die for any cause, said Jim Bowie. Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain't noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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Alvin wondered if it was true—if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart's desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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Around here, ma'am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain't eating then they lying.
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We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.
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Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
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Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that you're a hundred pounds overweight, your underwear is older than the average first grader, and judging from the number of pizza boxes lying around, it must be spring already. But you don't care, because your program runs, and the code is fast and clever and tight. You won.
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That's the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.
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She can't help her red skin, and she isn't heathen. In fact, she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.
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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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In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
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I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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August 24, 1951
(age 72)
Bio:
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction.
Known for:
Ender's Game (1985)
Shadows Alive
Shadows in Flight (2012)
Speaker for the Dead (1986)
Ender's Shadow (1999)
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