Orson Scott Card Short Quotes

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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.

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I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.

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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.

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

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A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

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[He] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.

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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.

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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

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I don't have to be a gentleman, said Balzac. I am an artist.

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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

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

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He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

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One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

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It's plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.

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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

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It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

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You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

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It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

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

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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.

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It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.

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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?

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

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If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

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I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.

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