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I wanted your songs.
You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited...
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
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The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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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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The seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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It was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't
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You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
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She grunted. Nothing unusual?
That's right.
Well, if you ask me, that's pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
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You know, if you hurt people enough, eventually they'll all call you whatever you want. Maker. King. Captain. Boss. Master. Holy One. Pick your title, you can beat people into calling you that. But you don't change yourself a bit. All you do is change the meanings of those words, so they all mean the same thing: Bully.
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Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
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They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.
Plenty of time for renovation.
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I've never seen a soft heart turn hard, said Taleswapper. At least not without good reason.
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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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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
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Born:
August 24, 1951
(age 72)
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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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