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Orson Scott Card Quotes (displaying: 1 - 30 of 530 quotes)

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Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.
Orson Scott Card
We're an ecological disaster."Exactly," said the expendable.
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Wiggin really doesn't care as much about himself as he does about these other kids who aren't worth five minutes of his time.And yet this may be the very trait that makes everyone focus on him. Maybe this is why all those stories Sister Carlotta told him, Jesus always had a crowd around him.Maybe this is why I'm so afraid of Wiggen. Because he's the alien, not me. He's the unintelligible one, the unpredictable one. He's the one who doesn't do things for sensible, predictable reasons. I'm going to survive, and once you know that, there's nothing more to know about me. Him, though, he could do anything.
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What could go wrong...Doing some stupid impulsive thing that cause the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition.
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Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
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Darkness bound them closer than light.
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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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I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part still unknown.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes
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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. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper
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A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
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Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice."I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.
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It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
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We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.
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When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.
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If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time.
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The enemy gate is down.
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My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting."Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.
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Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
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I suggest "Bob." - Cincinnatus "Sergeant" Delphiki
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And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
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If the followers of the Oversoul are kept blind, if they can't judge the Oversoul's purpose for themselves, then they aren't freely choosing between good and evil, or between wise and foolish, but are only choosing to subsume themselves in the purposes of the Oversoul How can the Oversoul's plans be well-served, if all its followers are the kind of weak-souled people who are willing to obey the Oversoul without understanding? I will serve you, Oversoul, with my whole heart I'll serve you, if I understand what you're trying to do, what it means. And if your purpose is a good one... I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied -- I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do, Oversoul, then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.
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Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.
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This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.
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I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
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