Orson Scott Card Quotes

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Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

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What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.

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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.

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Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?

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Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

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Why give you answers you won't believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.

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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.

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Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

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I'm losing Savanna.
That's good. No one should own someone else.

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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

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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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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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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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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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As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there. Willingness is the single most important test.

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If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.

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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

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The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

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It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information.

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I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.

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Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

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As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

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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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